Legislative Update - February 2, 2006

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The Republican Party formally endorsed a guest worker program on January 20th that would permit more workers from abroad to work legally and temporarily in the United States. This vote preempted an Arizona activist’s resolution that argued that permitting guest workers would fuel more illegal immigration. Observers believe that had the Republican National Committee supported the anti-immigrant resolution, efforts to push for a guest worker program in Congress would have ground to a halt.

According to the Los Angeles Times, aides of President Bush and other Republican strategists agree that taking a hard lined stance against immigrants would alienate Latino voters. The activist and national committee member from Arizona, Randy Pullen, told the press that he represents many Republicans. He said that letting foreign workers take jobs legally is unacceptable to his voters in Arizona. Pullen withdrew his resolution after the full committee voted almost unanimously in favor of the guest worker program. Pullen was the only committee member to oppose the guest-worker proposal.

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