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U.S. President George W. Bush told a press conference recently thatthe immigration system is not working and that he would push for atemporary guest worker program during his second term.
TheU.S. mainly has problems with its border to Mexico. There are severalcases every year with people being smuggled into the U.S. in trunks ofcars, sometimes suffocating.
Bush told the pressconference his plan, which failed to pass through Congress last yearJanuary, to grant some of the estimated eight million to 10 millionillegal immigrants work visas for at least six years would takepressure of the porous U.S. – Mexican border.
"Thesystem we have today is not a compassionate system. It's not working.And as a result, the country is less secure than is could be with arational system," Bush said.
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