El Paso Times
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he still has hopes that immigration reform legislation - with increased money for border security, a guest-worker program and a path to legalization - will pass this year, even as the process is stalled in Congress.
"We haven't given up," Gonzales said Thursday during a visit to El Paso. "This is a very difficult issue, and obviously it's a very emotional issue that implicates economics, implicates politics because it is an election year, and implicates national security. We're talking about family and values. So we understand it's a very difficult issue, but it's too important to let it continue to be unsolved."
Posted by Richard at July 21, 2006