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Debate begins on America's future population.

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

a daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

President Bush has embraced yesterday's bipartisan compromise on immigration reform.

He wants to sign it before the end of the year.

It appeals to both the right and the left as the last best chance to secure America's borders and a way to bring 12 million people out of the shadows.

But there also is opposition from both ends of the political spectrum.

Will the presidential primaries have an impact on the debate?

On To the Poet, we'll hear about a merit system, tamper-proof ID cards, and amnesty.

On reporter's notebook later on, Paul Wolfowitz's forced resignation from the World Bank.

How big a slap is it to the United States?

First, here's the news.

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Hello again, Mormon. I'll only back with To the Point. The debate is on over immigration reform.

Can it succeed in the midst of the presidential primary campaigns? We'll hear that there's both

support and opposition from both ends of the political spectrum. On reporter's notebook,

the Wolfowitz Resign resignation, what does it

mean for the Bush White House and international relations? First, this news update, Massachusetts Democrat

Ted Kennedy and Arizona Republican John Kyle are as far apart as it gets on the U.S. Senate's

political spectrum, but they have both signed off on what President Bush calls comprehensive

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