Bush frontier visit touts border patrol

“President Bush visited the Southwest frontier Thursday to highlight recent improvements in border security and counter the ongoing attack by House Republicans on the broad revisions he is seeking in immigration law.

In Mission, a parched pocket of the Rio Grande valley just north of the Mexico border, Bush once again urged Congress to act, reiterating his call for an overhaul of immigration laws that encompasses tougher enforcement, a guest-worker program and some accommodation for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States.”

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