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To the Point

Deal Pending on Immigration Reform

To the Point

KCRW

News

4.4583 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2013

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Will a guest-worker program for unskilled laborers kill a Senate deal on immigration reform or will it be border security, a "path to citizenship" or some other obstacle?

Transcript

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0:00.0

From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

0:08.0

The Road to Immigration Reform, rough as ever.

0:14.7

Hello again, I'm Armin Aulny, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

0:18.7

A daily look at the issues Americans car about most.

0:21.3

Over the weekend, senators from both parties predicted historic immigration reform because business and labor had made a deal.

0:28.3

Sure enough, they did settle on a guest worker program for unskilled immigrants, which scuttled George W. Bush's effort six years ago.

0:35.4

But yet another Senate player now says the celebration is premature.

0:39.4

Are elements in the new coalition unhappy? What about border security and the path to citizenship

0:44.3

for guest workers and the 11 million illegals already here? Our reporter's notebook later on is

0:50.7

ADHD, overdiagnosed and over-medicated.

0:55.2

First here's the news.

0:57.0

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1:00.3

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1:11.2

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1:16.9

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1:18.0

Hello again, Warren. I'll name back with To the Point.

1:20.0

Just as senators of both parties were announcing that comprehensive immigration reform was

1:24.1

finally a done deal, it turned out that might not be the case at all. Will a guest

1:28.4

worker program for unskilled immigrants kill it again? Or will it be border security, a path to

1:33.9

citizenship, or one of the other controversial issues that have scuttled it in the past? We'll talk about

1:38.6

that today. On reporter's notebook, 11% of school-aged children have been diagnosed with

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