Bush signals opposition to automatic citizenship for illegals
US President George W. Bush yesterday expressed his opposition to granting automatic citizenship to those who had crossed the US border illegally after a Republican-sponsored immigration reform plan collapsed in the US Senate.
"We must ensure that those who break our laws are not granted an automatic path to citizenship," Bush said in his weekly radio address.
The comment appears to place Bush at odds with two key proposals considered by the Senate over the past weeks, which offer legalization -- and eventual citizenship -- to all or most of an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants currently living in the United States.
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