Bush guest-worker plan troubles critics
1/12/2004. The Oregonian
Labor organizations and immigrant advocates criticize the proposal for its potential to cheat U.S. citizens out of work and exploit newcomers. ...

Dubious immigration plan
1/12/2004. The Star-Ledger
President Bush's plan to reform immigration law offers undocumented workers a range of new benefits that are certain to lure a new wave of immigrants across our borders. ...

Oregon farmworker group skeptical of immigration reform plan
1/12/2004. The Business Journal Portland
Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN), Oregon's farmworker union, and Causa, Oregon's immigrant rights coalition, have criticized President George Bush's immigration reform plan announced last week, saying the strategy would benefit businesses at the expense of workers' stability. ...

New Act Could Send Children Of Illegal Immigrants To College
1/12/2004. WRAL
President George W. Bush's plans to allow undocumented workers to become citizens could impact other legislation affecting undocumented immigrants. The Senate is considering a measure that would help send children of illegal immigrants to college. ...

White House Immigration Proposal Questioned By Religious Group
1/12/2004. The Gamaliel Foundation
Rev. Rudolph T. Ju�rez, President of the Gamaliel Clergy Caucus, a one million member religious coalition, offered this reaction today to President Bush�s announcement on Immigration Policy: The Gamaliel Foundation and its 1,200 faith congregations are saddened by the President's proposed immigration policy. Since the tragic event of September 11, 2001, we have been delayed and sidetracked in passing the kind of immigration policies that would be more reflective of a nation built on democratic ideals. The Bush policy seems to be designed to offer the business community full access to the immigrant workers while providing very little in the way of protections or rights for the workers themselves. ...

Business Cheers Bush's Plan to Hire Immigrants More Easily, but Labor Is Wary
1/12/2004. The New York Times
Every year Frank Romano has trouble hiring enough workers to fill the vacancies at his nursing home chain in Massachusetts, from $60,000-a-year nurses to $8-an-hour kitchen and laundry workers. Not only are there not enough American-trained nurses available, said Mr. Romano, who hires 300 new workers a year, but hardly any Americans are willing to take the lowly, sweaty jobs in a nursing home's kitchen or laundry....

Justices Refuse to Review Case on Secrecy and 9/11 Detentions
1/12/2004. The New York Times
In a significant victory for the Bush administration, the Supreme Court declined today to review the government's refusal to release information about foreigners held after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. ...

President�s New Approach To Immigration Policy Filled With Sweeping Generalities And Little Details
1/12/2004. American Friends Service Committee
When President Bush outlined the administration�s new approach to U.S. immigration policy on Wednesday, January 7, he spoke mostly in sweeping generalities, and offered few details about any specific new legislation, which must be passed by Congress before any meaningful changes are enacted. ...

Anti-Immigration Ads Spreading Across the Country
1/12/2004.
anti-immigrant ads by the "United to Secure America Coalition" are scheduled to run in Arizona during the next few weeks. Several media stations across the country have refused to take such divisive ads and we should alert our local media about where they are coming from and their negative impact on our communities....

Hill Cool to Bush Immigration Plan
1/11/2004. The Washington Post
President Bush's proposal to give temporary legal status to millions of undocumented immigrants is running into stiff resistance from both left and right on Capitol Hill and stands little chance of enactment this year, according to supporters and opponents. ...