In 2006 and 2007, Congress failed at compromise on illegal migration, an issue that confronts many countries.
Americans clearly wanted stronger enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws. This had to come before any attempt at reforms to create a program for temporary workers to enter the country legally or to allow undocumented migrants in the US to walk a punitive path to citizenship, which many deem amnesty.http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1231/p08s01-comv.htmlChristian Science Monitor