Bush Is Taken to Task on Immigration
President has failed to deliver on reform, labor and Latino groups say. White House foiled bid to assist farm workers, congressional aides say. President Bush calls America "the nation of the open door" and promotes immigration reform, a theme with great appeal for Latino voters. But immigrant and labor organizers said Friday that Bush showed himself to be all talk and no action when he recently helped quash a Republican-sponsored bill to provide farm laborers legal status. Last week, the White House asked Sen. Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho) not to offer an amendment that would pave the way for half a million undocumented farm laborers to earn the right to legal status by working in the fields. [more]