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Motocross had some hard times, and an appeal much push the song, but his condition CTIA in Las Vegas, has been anything but dull. Motorola may not be a successor of the RAZR (not an easy task), but they have some nice including equipment has just been announced Z9, AT T, 3G, GPS, and a high level of business or limettengrün a Motorola Q9c of Alltel (also in Liquorice for those of you who do not celebrate St. Paddy’s Day), Windows Mobile 6.1 on Motorola Q9h (the GSM - Global aka Q9 via AT & T) and ROKR E8 for the first time highlighted the need for the ESC At the beginning of this year.

The E8 ROKR should be soon, and is unique and a nice photo. It uses the touch (a technique that vibrates a touch screen in return, if you touch it). We lived, how can it have on the Voyager LG Verizon and some other mobile phones. But who can this E8 not serve on the screen, but the box below, where the number of carpets and other controls. If the phone is off, it is a shiny black surface with numbers, letters or anything else. Turn it and the number Pad appears. Tap a number and nature, as they touch a button is pushed, and not widespread buzzy haptischen vibrate on display. Very cool stuff. Switch to the music player and the numbers disappear. Controls music player in the game appear to be reverting to sending messages touch.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 02, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) - Laser Card Corporation (NASDAQ: LCRD), a leading provider of solutions for secure identification, announced today they received a purchase order for the providing a map for the next generation resolution encoding Department of Homeland Security (DHS), US Permanent Resident Card (green card).

Under the conditions of the order, the US Department of Citizenship and Immigration Service’s Prime contractors, Laser Card provides 40 next generation encoder, software and related services. The new solution will replace the “Green Card” customization apparatus, the oldest a decade. Encoders and software with a value of approximately $ 170000, are expected over the next six months.

“The relocation of our solution coding improved, the Department of Homeland Security is a continued commitment to optical storage technology,” said Bernard C. Bailey, president of the Laser Card’s Board of Directors. “The award of this order is a new proof of the continuing ability Card laser, a Best-of-Breed Technology for Security identification cards for solutions and is the forerunner to the introduction of a progressive optical storage Green Card “.

The new solution coding their advanced laser technology improves the resolution and contrast, the laser hologram Embedded Card’s customized. This feature is unique among all the data storage technologies, maps to sustain it marked the recording medium with digital data visible to the eye, in this case, the image of the holder’s face map. This feature has proven to be one of the largest optical component manufacturing Security card credentialing programs, and is currently in the use of the US / Mexico Border Crossing Card, the Canadian Permanent Resident Card ” and Italian residents IDs, Costa Rica Resident ID in the Middle East and a national identification card.

“The information encoded visual and digital laser’s optical memory card is tamper-proof and was never in danger. It is important to note, in a world where visual inspection remains the most common means of identification and verification of ‘article, “said Bailey. “The optical storage technology, the most secure, which are available today and is a bridge over the security of the future of electronic ID, available infrastructure is widely identification to authenticate and verify ID automatically. ”

About Laser Card Corporation

Laser Card Corporation is a leading supplier of secure identification solutions for governments and commercial customers around the world and also manufactures a wide range of progressives, the security of identity documents. These documents are part of laser optical ID Card (R) and a memory card hybrid optical memory cards contact, contactless chip and RFID technology. The company and card systems are widely available in countries around the world, including the United States, Canada, Italy, India and the Middle East, for applications such as border security , utilities and access. Laser Card’s subsidiary hundred percent french, Challenge Card Design GmbH plastic cards, manufactures and provides a wide range of maps of high-quality special, and customization of identification cards and management solutions in the context of the CCD Cards & More and trademarks.

Forward-Looking Statements

All statements in this release contains statements that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are not historical facts or guarantees of future results or events. Conversely, they are based on current Des expectations, estimates, beliefs, assumptions and objectives and are subject to uncertainties, it is difficult to predict. As a result of our actual results can be substantially statements. Often these reports can be obtained by the use of words such as May, it is anticipated, plans, believes, anticipates, Vision scheduled, and estimates. Examples of forward-looking statements contained in this release include our hope that our deliveries under the order, over the next six months, that the mission is the precursor to the adoption of a progressive optical storage Based Green Card and that the future of ‘Identity infrastructure available electronic identification and authentication automatic checking ID. These forward-looking statements are based on our assumptions about the future and evaluation, which may not prove an agreement, and include A number of risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, whether the United States DHS tried to delay or cancel deliveries of the order, if we have any difficulties for the equipment, if it is quality or other problems with the equipment, if the US entries in the system design increasingly advanced optical storage based Green Card if the infrastructure will be automatically check how much ID as risk factors in society, in the form 8-K, 10-K and 10-Q filings at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Given these and other risks, actual future results may be materially from expectations. Such statements are valid only on the date of this communication, and, insofar as the law is not necessary, the company undertakes no obligation to publish updates or revisions of the output of these statements, As a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

The Kangaroo gas station at 1505 Martha Berry Blvd. was defrauded of $5,330 in Green Dot prepaid credit cards Tuesday, reports stated Wednesday.

According to Rome police reports:

A man called the gas station Tuesday afternoon saying he worked as a software engineer for the company that validates the cards. He told a convenience store employee he needed some credit card numbers to test new software.

The fraud resulted in 16 stolen prepaid credit cards valued at $410 each.

Police officials are working with Kangaroo and Presolutions, the software company that validates the cards, in a search for the culprits.

LOS ANGELES, March 31 / PRNewswire / - Setting up during 1972
Presidential elections in the United States, the cycle with the slogan “Nixon King”
Artists and political cartoonist Peter Green’s have a Politicards
The Nation’s classic collectibles of the campaign season. Now, in the middle of the
An invigorating the presidential race in the recent past,
Gambling voters can surely parties in the “Politicards 2008 - Goes To DC
The Movies “this year as one thing is certain, as winners.

Politicards 2008, the theme film acknowledges that increasingly
From the interference of the entertainment industry Commonwealth in the political arena. In
In addition to the current crop of presidential candidates and his pals pol
Along the line, send Green politically active, including celebrities
George Clooney and Susan Sarandon and experts and personalities from Jon
Stewart Rush Limbaugh. Each casino Premium quality of the sound card offers
Topics such as the star from a classic movie scene, and contains a quote apropos
For each film, Peter Green’s the platform more Politicards
Amer alimony than ever.

The Southern California-based Green securities in its long course satirical
Series “Politicards” is based on the word “politikar” to take a spin
The french word for “politicians” means a political schemer. ‘
Granddaddy of all cards of the political game of the day, Peter Green’s
Politicards lead to a tradition of verspottend these characters on the map
Decks, dates back to the 17 century.

The first printing of Politicards early 1972 sold for singles
Weeks, with the “Los Angeles Times” Annunciation “Politicards Sweeping
Nationality …. Winning the heart of the Meute harpoonery everywhere, threatening
Even before the throne reigns unchallenged Spiro Agnew watches. ”

The term has no boundaries in sight, Peter Green’s have since Politicards
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Politicards 2008 - DC Goes To The Movies deals a winning hand in the current state
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Traders who play their cards right between now and 2012, Peter
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SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass., April 1 / PRNewswire / - Greener online —
Content; powerful as a printed page … Digital Publishing
Often vilified rescue publishing industry, in what readers
They want, when they want it.

Imagine yourself a magazine without small cards that fall on the ground.
It is not unusual for a publisher to generate one million cards secure
One thousand subscribers. Blow All maps can be created in electronic form,
With wrapper, bids and the renewal of indications.

Texterity, Inc., a leading provider of digital publishing solutions, created,
Maintains and more than 800 digital channels of magazines, catalogs, books and
White Papers. Its format Published Web, the printed page into a living
After Web education, true-to-style, but also to a large extent, interactive, enhanced with music,
Video, advertisers and media social ties.

“Many customers as accompanist digital printing,” says Cimarron
Buser, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for
Texterity. “National Geographic’s Green Guide, and the next steps GreenLight
Recently was digital. Screen’s Next Winding Road Back-and-Play is published
As a digital-only. We see both consumers and exchanges with digital publishers
Solutions for the green mark their place. ”

In addition, trees, Anita Erickson, vice president of marketing for
Next screen indicates their digital publishing company, for a live readers
Umweltfreundlicheren lifestyle.

“Products and links to resources in magazines leave
Find, compare and buy on their workstations, reducing the need for on -
By car to go shopping, “says Erickson.

Jim Ziegler, manager of the obligation to Penton’s Natural Food Merchandiser
Functional and ingredients, represents “a digital clock extradition
Commitment to our viewers and advertisers. Thanks to the availability of a green
Alternative to print, we show that we are, which is important. A
Digital shows that - and we - seriously
The conservation of resources. Our slogan really summarizes: “Eco-friendly; always
On time. ”

Readers are Texterity Edition-with a standard Web browser on
Any Mac or iPod and tactile. Content can quickly sought
Or other categories. For publishers, integrated transport systems,
Conforming to the report, and an opportunity to sell the digital
Value added.

Best of all - there is practically no Carbon Footprint: no paper or ink
For production … No plastic bags to carry or fuel consumption
Delivery … No return and the importance of recycling in our butcher.

If Texterity a poll of digital culture in the drive in the past year
Collaboration with the BPA Worldwide, 52% of respondents stated that the
Respectful of the environment was one of the top three reasons that read,
Digital.

Unemployment in the United States may be a concern, but let tech Congress they need more skilled labour from abroad. With April 1, the deadline for applying for H-1B visas threatens specialty workers, technology giants such as Microsoft (MSFT), Oracle (ORCL), and Google (GOOG) have stepped up efforts to increase the ceiling for Many of the workers visa, they can have access every year. Microsoft has argued that Bill Gates Congress (BusinessWeek.com, 3/12/08), for the second year it’s just a large deficit in the United States and in the nature of engineering talent, and whether Looks that the lid of the fifth year just for the workers, visas are achieved in just one day. Days later, the bills too aggressive increase in visas to achieve Cap floor of the house.

With concern about the recession develops to the demand for more visas provoked an outcry of technology in the United States and to other groups of workers supported for a long time, critics of the H-1B programme. You say that the issuance of visas over steam in the United States of workers “, using wages and cheap labour, and to facilitate outsourcing as skilled workers in their country of ‘Origin of return (BusinessWeek.com, 2.8.08). Moreover, the critics say, increased numbers of visa issuance, without more green cards for residence permits for an indefinite period is extended only the long line of Waiting for the issuance of visas for workers already here years (BusinessWeek.com, 7/18/07).

“The new banknotes to leave would be open for business in order to fill the gaps in the H-1B programme,” said Ron Hira, assistant professor of public policy at Rochester (NY) Institute of Technology. “[A-Cap], and without further reform the wages of American workers lower transmission speed to work abroad, waves and the green card for the delay.”

WASHINGTON - The United States on immigration seeks more “logic, common sense” rules for evaluating candidates engaged green card attempts to overthrow foreign dictators.

In a decision likely to affect thousands of applications for the finals of residence in the United States, the Agency has estimated that it would temporarily stop automatically deny green cards to those refugees and other legal immigrants, Washington Post reported.

Jonathan Hash, deputy director of the United States to citizenship and bc-us-greencardImmigration services of the Post, said the cases of hundreds of others denied green cards since December also be reviewed. All claimants living in the United States or in the refugee camp visas or other provisions of political asylum.

Most applications will work in conjunction with people in groups defined as “Undetermined” terrorist organizations, because they are armed actions against the government of another country. But, as the allies of the United States that fought for Iraq and Afghanistan, the Post said.

Where can I get a green card? In 1730, my (9 sizes), the grandfather came into the port of South Carolina, France, with his wife Elizabeth. So, I am ninth-generation Americans.

I have ancestors / family members into their lives every major war, including Vietnam. And yet

And there is little time yet, given the effectiveness and 30 minutes during a driving licence Local station to get a number, so much so that I could wait another couple hours (j ‘was there to carry a firearm permit paperwork portable), I was still a long way since I got a copy of my birth certificate. It was not good enough, I have my driver’s license (for 40 years), my social security card, and a copy of my birth certificate. “We make our own copies,” I was told. Well, after some thought, I think I would be better off with a green card.

More than 85000 inhabitants Leicestershire received “smart card” because as part of a national programme aimed at promoting the improvement of transport for the elderly and the disabled.
The cards are free, Off-Peak travel on most local bus routes in England on Tuesday.

They are covered by landing on a carpet of man in the coming weeks, “said the departmental council.

Old passports to travel in Leicestershire and September useful for those who are not ready for the new type.

Council deputy director Nicholas Rushton, said: “I am delighted that so many residents in question to take advantage of this new regime immediately.

“It is important that people who are not ready for a new passport or recognize that they continue with their old local bus passport for the trip, until they are replaced.”

(NECN: Burlington, Vermont) - The secret of success for a greeting card, is located in the Green Mountains of Vermont and the Himalayas in India. The company is called “Hope For Women”, and its goal is to disadvantaged artisans, women coupled with the possibilities of sale.

NECN has Huneke Anya’s history.

Script:

15, Evan Goldsmith has adopted a journey that is not only his life but the lives of women halfway around the world. He has lived and worked in the Himalayas of India, at the end of the meeting, a group of artisans in crafts, greeting cards by hand.

Evan: “I have continued to send cards at home, and people were enthusiastic.”

The problem was that women did not have access to a market for their products. Thereafter they were too little money for their hard work. Evan back to the United States with a plan. He started an organization in Burlington, Vermont, called “Hope for Women” for women with a Resource Marketing.

A year and a half, with the help of his father, a New York businessman, he has fair trade, environmentally sound cards for the retail market. The rest, as they say, is history.

Now, all tickets are sold from India, but soon, they come from El Salvador, too. For women, the hope has just signed with one of the architects of the whole group, to July, the cards are sold in stores.

Evan: “At the moment we are in more than 500 locations in 47 countries …”

Including natural factors

Food giants Whole Foods. ” Scribbles, a stationary activity in Burlington, is another merchant. There was little time to convince the directors Jane Jarecki, it is a viable product.

JareckI: “The fact that local authorities, fair trade, and the fine amount for childcare expenses wings of the shelf.”

50 women from India are behind 20000 maps created each month. The cards are in his hand by using recycled paper from rags of cotton, vegetables, flowers ink and pressed, and are packed in plastic component.

Evan: “We will try, as fully as possible, a package, so that very little reason for anyone to say ‘no - you do not meet certain criteria.”

David: “It’s a real niche marketing. Being green and fair trade, as you can see - is always something to a large number of the legs.”

Amber: “The greatest thing that all - you do something where you are, the world a better place.”

Better yet, make sure these women, said Evan, many of them barely the minimum wage …

Evan: “The ability to do 5-7 times a day - translates to the ability of a child to school or medical security.”

And they are able to do so, thanks to the work of an organization which is based in the Green Mountains.

Evan: “If there is one place in the United States, in order to establish a connection with the Himalayas - it would probably be in Vermont - where they an understanding of social responsibility.”

Hop on Smart Planet’s race for a whistlestop Sarah Gibb looks on the cards sustainable, Comet’s Cut value added tax and lighting LED bike powered by the sun. More than wasting energy Day, Agnes B’s best Lush bags and bottles recycled.

Happy birthday proverb charm with eco —
Charter hypermarket has launched a new series of beautiful greeting cards girly open. Designed by Sarah Gibb, they are certified (FSC sustainable forest management) are recycled card. For further information, greenie points, the clarity of the plastic envelope - ends, as a general rule, in the trash - is compostable corn starch. They are respectively £ 1.95.

Teeny-Sun lights for bikes (in the picture)
We saw sunlamps for bicycles, but after a LEDtronics has to be the smallest of our’s radar detected. Even if we did not really see in the photo above is a small solar panel on top, the internal costs of the battery, and once lit, a powerful flashing red light to stop effective you have mowed. The name of the wicked flashing LED Solar-Powered Bike Safety Light is now on sale for $ 17 (£ 8.50), excluding shipping costs.

Lush will be fully recycled bottles
Known for its packaging at the bottom - the reason for the sharp pong unworthy, if one’s past - Lush is now closer to a commutation of his recycle plastic bottles. The removal of all its shampoo, hair care, gels and creams. Nice work. Now, we need only Neal’s Yard and The Body Shop to play catch-up.

Corny An air of Agnes B
Protzigen french designer Agnes B, jumping on the green bag verbeißen. Sacks sent maintaining the label cornstarch, break down the theory without release of greenhouse gases - if memory and fashion fans customers, efforts to compost rather than placing Landfill ‘em.

Comet reduction of VAT on eco electricals
We missed this one. Since Easter, ’s Comet had a sale with low energy consumption of washing machines, dishwashers and refrigerators and freezers. The savings are not monsters, but they are not bad - there is a £ 350 Bosch washing machine A + knocked down to £ 300 Comet’s dressed to the sale of the lower rate of VAT on eco electricals - is Will the old Gordie Brown’s for some time at the European level.

Gaspillent energy days
The types of businesses have Together.com a video for fraud energy conservation. Check it out - it is moderate to high on the scale funny.

Another Chinese-born intellectual with permanent residency status in the United States has been detained by Chinese security forces, human rights groups and acquaintances of the man said today.

Qin Guangguang, a pharmaceutical company executive in Beijing who lived in the United States from 1989 to 1994, was detained at the Beijing airport in December on suspicion of giving state secrets to an overseas intelligence agency, the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said.

Mr. Qin was a well-connected newspaper editor in China until 1989, when he left the country and served as a visiting scholar at several American universities, including Stanford. He also lived in Flushing, N.Y., for several years.

It was not clear if his departure from China was related to the military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters at Tiananmen Square in 1989 — an event that sent thousands of Chinese fleeing overseas. His father-in-law, Feng Yuanxin, was a prominent official in Sichuan Province at the time of the protests and is currently an official in Beijing.

While in the United States, Mr. Qin and his wife received green cards, and in 1994 he returned to China as a businessman. The police confiscated the passports and green cards of Mr. Qin’s wife, Feng Li, and daughter around the time he was detained.

The American Embassy said it had not been asked to intervene in the case, and American officials said China would not notify them of such a detention because he was a green card holder, not a citizen.

For the sake of legal entry, the Immigration Service hire 250 temporary workers to reduce the backlog of applications from people who are in a legal residence in the United States. Without another worker, immigration officials estimate that by the end of the year, 1.2 million applications for humans, citizenship, under the amnesty provisions of the Immigration Act 1990.

Officials from the Department of Justice indicates that even for the financing of the new series largely by the transfer of money within the existing budget of immigration.

President Bush and President Carlos Salinas de Gortari of Mexico expressed the hope that the free-trade agreement they are negotiating would be a step towards a long-term solution to the problem. But a number of experts believe that even with the agreement, and Mexican wages, activity rates will take years to the occasion enough to compete with American wages.

At the same time, the Bush administration seems to be the foremost intensifed law enforcement authorities, illegal entries.

Experts say the Immigration Act 1986, employment has been weak implementation and by the widespread use of false documents, by the workers, their employability.

In response, the Immigration Service to recall 1.5 million voweisen documents or green cards before 1970. These old green cards, jobs to demonstrate, promotion, are easier to falsify, immigration officials say. In their place, the Immigration Service is false documents-resistant, costs $ 70 reinstatement of the card.

Another measure is for those who are in the celebration of crime in the United States. Saying officials from the Department of Justice, which represents nearly 65000 prisoners of the Federal Republic, fourth - most of them from Mexico - non-citizens. In some legal systems, as in southern Orange County in California, nearly 35% of suspects were attacked by foreigners, officials say.

The Ministry of Justice is considering the creation of a national identity Penal Monitoring Centre would allow criminal prosecution authorities in the Swedish Migration Board at any time to identify and track foreigners, the realization of offences.

The system will be used, faster to expel foreigners from the completion of the prison and immigration officials to begin the procedure of deportation against aliens while they are in prison.

A shadowy arms broker starts negotiating with some Russian mafia types to buy antitank weapons, surface-to-air missiles, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and machine guns. The broker makes it clear: The weapons are for terrorists in the United States, probably connected to Al Qaeda. The arms sellers don’t care: Just so long as they get their money.

But the arms broker actually worked for the FBI as a confidential informant. And Monday night, the whole scheme as described by US authorities fell apart for 18 men now accused of trying to smuggle in an arsenal for $2.5 million.

Is immigration reform dead for this year, and this Congress? It’s too soon for such a pronouncement, but things aren’t looking good. Here’s one idea that might revive the project.

Just about everyone agrees that reform is needed, but not everyone agrees on what “reform” means. To the House it means tougher enforcement. To the Senate it means enforcement plus a path to legalization for millions of undocumented immigrants and a guest-worker program for future arrivals. Any bill “comprehensive” enough to satisfy the Senate is unlikely to pass muster in the House; anything draconian enough for the House can’t win 60 votes in the Senate.

The editor of a newspaper group in a Detroit suburb said today that he resigned after being told to stop publishing unfavorable economic news.

John Cusumano, editorial director of The News-Herald Newspapers, said he resigned Monday after receiving a memorandum from John Tarrant, publisher of The News-Herald.

”From now on, plant closings, business failures and layoffs will not appear on the front page of any of our newspapers,” the memorandum said, adding that The News-Herald, which publishes weekly editions in Wyandotte and four neighboring communities and has a combined circulation of 50,000, will ”aggressively support, promote and report business organizations within our circulation area and-or those business organizations who support us with their advertising.”

More : query.nytimes.com

Bonn, Germany, July 16, 2000 The German government approved Friday a plan to open its borders to up to 20,000 foreign computer experts under a plan approved Friday by the German government in its bid to keep the country’s high-tech sector from falling behind market leaders like the United States.

Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder pushed for the socalled “green cards” in response to industry complaints that there are not enough qualified workers to fill positions in Germany, especially in the field of information technology.

The plan takes effect August 1.

Workers who come to Germany under the new rules will be given a five-year work permit after they prove they have completed a degree in a related field or have a guarantee of making at least 100,000 marks ($48,000) in annual salary. They will be allowed to bring family members who will also receive work permits.

Schroeder has said employers have already offered 11,000 jobs through a “green card hotline” and some 4,700 potential applicants have sent e-mails seeking information. Most are expected to be from India and Eastern Europe.

The Christian Democrats criticized the “green card” plan Friday as “blind reaction” that was too narrow. They called for the government to raise the issue of an overall immigration policy, noting that other industries such as food service and nursing are also experiencing heavy labor shortages.

Source : newsflash.org

An immigration reform group says a loophole in a “mini-amnesty” bill favored by the Bush administration and already passed by the House could allow terrorists to apply for and receive permission to be in the United States.

According to a briefing provided to Congress by the Federation for American Immigration Reform, the loophole exists in legislation passed by one vote in the House March 12. The bill, called the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002, would reauthorize Section 245(i), a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act that grants amnesty to illegal immigrants currently inside the U.S.

In its briefing, the group said it believes the statute could allow terrorists to apply for the 245(i) amnesty and current terrorist suspects to be released from custody.

“It’s baffling to think that Congress might actually pass a bill that inadvertently gives green cards to terrorists,” said Dan Stein, FAIR’s executive director. “The amnesty is another example of legislation which avoids the scrutiny of full public debate yet has far reaching – and in this case, politically deadly – consequences.”

More : worldnetdaily.com

Americans are often criticized for their shortsightedness. After reading John H. Cushman Jr.’s article [ “Illegal Workers: a Long Road to Legality,” Feb. 4 ] , I have to agree that we deserve this criticism.

In Mr. Cushman’s article, there are people who suggest that we give 80,000 green cards immediately to people who are waiting to work legally as baby sitters, instead of making them wait up to 15 years. This supposedly to solve the child-care shortage in this country.

What is the guarantee that these baby sitters would not look for other jobs that pay better once they have the right to work legally and wherever they want? If they choose to stop working and apply for welfare, are there any legal means to force them to continue to work as child-care providers?

Have we given thought to the cost of providing health care, education and housing for all the family members (and extended family members) of these sitters? What would be the impact of these newcomers on the American job market? CAROL FOX Alameda, Calif.

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The long-delayed immigration bill President George W. Bush proposed on Jan. 7 marks a dramatic and sweeping reprise of a key Administration policy that got sidelined in the wake of September 11. The Bush plan, which would grant temporary work status to millions of undocumented workers, will no doubt face a fight in Congress. But some kind of program to legitimize America’s vast illegal workforce stands a good chance of becoming law.

After all, repairing an all-but-broken immigration policy, which the Administration started to do before the 2001 terrorist attacks, would help many groups. Up to 10 million people now living illegally in the U.S. — the majority of them from Mexico — would be able to come out into the sunlight for the first time, working, renting, and driving without duplicity or fear. “We need to make our immigration laws more rational and more humane,” Bush said when he announced the plan.

But it’s not just workers who would benefit: Many employers would, too. They would no longer have to worry about federal raids and lawsuits alleging that they hire undocumented workers, like those that have hit companies such as Tyson Foods Inc. (TSN ) and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT ). More broadly, companies large and small would have a more stable supply of low-wage labor, with fewer hiring hassles and, most likely, less turnover. “If [undocumented workers] went home, we’d have to shut down this country” because there would be nobody to do their jobs, says U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas J. Donahue, who supports the Administration’s plan.

Still, there are significant economic consequences involved in bringing 10 million illegal residents into the mainstream. Several studies have found that the large-scale flow of cheap labor into the U.S. has contributed to holding down wages among the working poor. While a guest worker program could temporarily boost labor costs by raising wages and benefits for formerly illegal workers, in the long run, it’s more likely to lower labor costs.

More : businessweek.com