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It’s not amnesty, and it calls for further securing borders, but at least on the surface it seems that the agreement reached in Congress this morning on how to handle the immigration issue in this country has some points in favor of immigrants currently in the U.S. While President Bush immediately praised the proposed legislation, Senator Ted Kennedy simultaneously lauded it, saying the agreement would bring immigrants and their families “out of the shadows and into the sunshine of American life,” by providing them opportunity to immediately correct their status.

So what are the key points of the proposed immigration bill and what would change? Here’s the Cliff’s Notes version:

A temporary worker program. A system would be created which would “give weight to immigrants’ education and to job skills deemed helpful to the economy in deciding whom to admit, using a point system to evaluate those qualifications. Family ties would remain an important factor,” according to the New York Times.

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