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President Bush pushes for Immigration Bill , Senate Crushes the Attempt

The Immigration Law in the United States recently became headline news and concern in the United States because of President Bush 's attempts to reform the bill , which is deemed to be beneficial for the thousands of illegal immigrants in the country

In a statistics done by Pew Hispanic Center , roughly 11 .5 to 12 million foreign nationals are residing illegally in the United States . ADDIN EN .CITE NewsBBC Newshttp /news .bbc .co .u k /2 /hi /americas /6250756 .stmVote

dashes Bush immigration plan12007 July 5http /news .bbc .co uk /2 /hi /americas /6250756 .stmbbcbbc .co .ukEnglishFriday 29 June 2007 (News , 2007 ) The illegal immigrants , among the thousands more , have entered the country without the essential documents that will validate their residency . Some of them also have temporary visas which are considered invalid because of their over stay in the country . Illegal immigrants have also doubled their number in the last two decades and now results to about five times more than in the 1980 's . ADDIN EN .CITE NewsBBC Newshttp /news .bbc .co .u k /2 /hi /americas /6250756 .stmVote dashes Bush immigration plan12007 July 5http /news .bbc .co uk /2 /hi /americas /6250756 .stmbbcbbc .co .ukEnglishFriday 29 June 2007 (News , 2007

President Bush made it a priority , as probably one of the things he would like to be considered as his legacy , to overhaul the existing US Immigration law . ADDIN EN .CITE Hulse20072 223Hulse C .Pear R .Proposal to revise U .S . immigration law stalls in SenateInternational Herald Tribune1-22007June 8 ,2007Newshttp /www .iht .com /articles /2007 /06 /08 /frontpage /immig .phpiht .comhttp /www .iht .comEnglishJuly 5 (Hulse Pear , 2007 ) But the attempt was crushed in the Senate and the Bill was said to be resolved further until after the 2008 Presidential elections . ADDIN EN .CITE NewsBBC Newshttp /news .bbc .co .u k /2 /hi /americas /6250756 .stmVote dashes Bush immigration plan12007 July 5http /news .bbc .co uk /2 /hi /americas /6250756 .stmbbcbbc .co .ukEnglishFriday 29 June 2007 (News , 2007 Majority of the senators have voted against keeping the bill alive and opposes the goal to grant citizenship to about more than 12 million illegal immigrants in the country . One of the greatest concerns of the opposing senators was that the bill seeks to grant amnesty to the illegal immigrants in breaking the law . One of the opposing senators Jim DeMint was quoted saying that The American people won today . They care enough for their country to get mad and to fight for it ' ADDIN EN .CITE NewsBBC Newshttp /news .bbc .co .u k /2 /hi /americas /6250756 .stmVote dashes Bush immigration plan12007 July 5http /news .bbc .co uk /2 /hi /americas /6250756 .stmbbcbbc .co .ukEnglishFriday 29 June 2007 (News , 2007

The legislation proposed by the President himself would allow illegal immigrants to eventually seek citizenship and entitle would-be immigrants a chance to apply for legal citizenship through the guest-worker program . ADDIN EN .CITE FellerFeller BenTime Running Out on...