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| March 13, 2007 | Clark, Lesley | This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Lesley Clark

Mar. 13--WASHINGTON -- A civil rights organization says immigrant guest-worker programs like those championed by Congress need to be "radically altered" to prevent abuse if they're to be used to stem the tide of illegal immigration.

A report released Monday by the Southern Poverty Law Center, based in Montgomery, Ala., comes as Congress embarks on immigration legislation that could expand such guest-worker programs. Some 120,000 low-skilled temporary workers were admitted in 2005 under an H-2 visa, the report said.

The study, based on interviews with thousands of guest workers and documents from dozens of legal cases, charges…

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