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LCN LLL November 200501-05-06 | News



Bush Revises ?EUR??,,????'??Guest Worker?EUR??,,????'?? Plan




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Bush-administration strategist Karl Rove has presented details of a plan that would let more ?EUR??,,????'??guest workers?EUR??,,????'?? enter the country, a move that landscape-related groups have advocated for years.


White House political strategist Karl Rove has offered lawmakers new details of a guest worker program that would legalize the status of millions of illegal workers.

The White House effort is seen as its latest step toward reasserting President Bush?EUR??,,????'???s leadership on one of the most divisive issues confronting the Republican Party. The move came in late September.

Hundreds of small landscaping firms across the country depend on mostly Mexican workers who enter the U.S. as part of the government?EUR??,,????'???s very limited H2B program. An unknown number employ illegal workers who present forged identification cards. For several years, the industry?EUR??,,????'???s Professional Landcare Network, or PLANET, has pushed legislators to change the rules to let more legal ?EUR??,,????'??guest workers?EUR??,,????'?? enter the country.

Concerned that increasingly strident anti-immigrant voices within the party were undermining the administration?EUR??,,????'???s efforts to reach out to Latino voters, the administration formed a coalition of business groups and immigration advocates during the summer to lobby for the sort of comprehensive plan Bush has advocated since early in his presidency.

Source: Los Angeles Times

Patrick Tracy wrote in with a comment on 09/27/05:

I and many others who supported President Bush in the last election are frustrated and disgusted with the pandering the administration is involved with in the borders and illegal aliens. The Republican party better wise up and secure the borders and eject the millions of illegals who are ruining this country and its citizens?EUR??,,????'??? benefits. Not to mention the frustration all the legal aliens are being subjected to who are following the proper procedures to become a legal citizen of our nation. Seal the borders, eject the illegals and save the country!

Patrick Tracy
Baltimore, Md.






Irrigation Inspectors In N.C. Capitol






The landscape around Raleigh, N.C. was looking more parched than when this photo was taken, the result of a drought this summer and fall.


Raleigh, N.C. inspectors are enforcing mandatory water cutbacks?EUR??,,????'??+a last-straw plan to fight dwindling water supplies.

Too few people complied when Raleigh asked nicely, City Manager Russell Allen said. ?EUR??,,????'??We?EUR??,,????'???re going to have inspectors out,?EUR??,,????'?? he said.

Eight other towns depend on Raleigh for water and must follow its lead on restrictions: Garner, Wake Forest, Rolesville, Fuquay-Varina, Holly Springs, Knightdale, Wendell and Zebulon. Friendly warnings are likely for first offenders, Allen said. But fines start at $50 and rise as high as $500. Neighbors tend to report one another, Allen added.

The restrictions would come at the height of the fall lawn-seeding season. Even the most devout lawn lovers expect to weather the drought, though. ?EUR??,,????'??We can live with it,?EUR??,,????'?? said Tom Barnette of northeast Raleigh, who has a yard even landscapers respect. ?EUR??,,????'??I don?EUR??,,????'???t water every day anyway.?EUR??,,????'?? Irrigation takes the biggest toll on the city?EUR??,,????'???s supply, Allen said. At this stage of conservation, watering would be recommended at night to limit evaporation, about 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. ?EUR??,,????'??That?EUR??,,????'???s going to be a little inconvenient,?EUR??,,????'?? Barnette said.

Residents with even-numbered addresses are asked to irrigate on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays; odd-numbered addresses take Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

Source: The (Raleigh) News & Observer






Labor Facts

29?EUR??,,????'???The number of non-immigrant classifications and visas, which includes foreign government officials, visitors, aliens in transit, crew members, students and foreign media representatives.

6?EUR??,,????'??? The number of temporary worker classifications, which includes fashion models, nurses, temporary agricultural workers, temporary skilled and unskilled workers, trainees and spouses.


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