The Washington Times
The Senate will take up border security as its first major bill next year, but the debate will include both guest-worker plans and a path to citizenship for illegal aliens, Majority Leader Bill Frist announced yesterday.
"We're going to start with border security, but in the same time we're on the floor we're going to build on that and extend that to the enforcement issues and the issues of more comprehensive reform, and give guest-worker [plans] full consideration," said Mr. Frist, Tennessee Republican.
With the Senate's open rules for debate, that means senators will end up voting on Sen. John McCain's plan to legalize illegal aliens and increase legal immigration, Sen. John Cornyn's temporary-worker plan that requires illegal aliens to return home within five years, and probably several different versions of border and interior enforcement.
Posted by Richard at October 26, 2005