THIS PLAN MAY NOT GET A GREEN CARD

摘要

The long-delayed immigration bill President George W. Bush proposed on Jan. 7 marks a dramatic and sweeping reprise of a key Administration policy that got sidelined in the wake of September 11. The Bush plan, which would grant temporary work status to millions of undocumented workers, will no doubt face a fight in Congress. But some kind of program to legitimize America's vast illegal workforce stands a good chance of becoming law. After all, repairing an all-but-broken immigration policy, which the Administration started to do before the 2001 terrorist attacks, would help many groups. Up to 10 million people now living illegally in the U.S.―the majority of them from Mexico―would be able to come but into the sunlight for the first time, working, renting, and driving without duplicity or fear. "We need to make our immigration laws more rational and more humane," Bush said when he announced the plan.