Conservatives want immigration control and national security tied together.
Bush, Frist, and Craig want amnesty for illegals.
WASHINGTON — The issues of immigration and the War on Terror collided on the Senate floor Tuesday as GOP leaders tried to derail debate on whether to provide amnesty for illegal-alien farm workers.
Some Republicans said they want to add the amnesty provision to an emergency spending bill providing $81 billion for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, but others tried to smother the legislation.
“I am encouraging my colleagues to defer, to postpone discussions of immigration and to postpone that debate to a later debate,” said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. (pictured)
Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig has been pushing a bill to grant temporary amnesty to 1.2 million illegal migrant farm workers as a path to full legal status. The White House opposes the bill because it deals only with migrant farm workers and not the larger illegal immigrant population.
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