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Bush renews calls for immigration overhaul, sparking heated debate.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Dave Montgomery
WASHINGTON _ With his pledge to make immigration revisions a high priority for his second term, President Bush is reigniting an emotional national debate over how to deal with the millions of illegal immigrants spread throughout American society.
The president is expected to include the issue in his State of the Union address Wednesday night, renewing his year-old proposal for an immigrant guest-worker program and provoking an acrimonious confrontation with conservative members of his party.
Nearly 10 million undocumented workers _ mostly from Mexico _ have poured into the United States over the last three decades in search of higher pay and better jobs.
At a news conference last week, Bush said he'd press Congress to find "a compassionate, humane" solution to the problem, a challenge that could lead to the first serious overhaul of U.S. immigration law since 1986.
How to control the borders and deal with the huge "shadow" population of illegal immigrants has bedeviled Congress for years, and the debate has gained an urgent dimension since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
"We can't secure the road from the airport to Baghdad in Iraq," said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. "How the hell are we going to control our border _ hundreds of miles between the United States and Mexico?"
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