WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush made a fresh election-season appeal to Hispanics Thursday by trumpeting his proposal to give temporary legal status to undocumented and legal immigrants, an initiative that stalled after his administration did little to push it through Congress.
Bush has only rarely mentioned the initiative since announcing it Jan. 7, and some lawmakers have accused him of neglecting it. The administration never provided Congress detailed guidance for legislation containing Bush's proposals, and bills that contained parts of them, some sponsored by Republicans, have not had hearings in the Republican-controlled Congress.
A bill to create a guest worker program for the agriculture industry has support from 60 senators, enough to pass the Senate, but Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., has yet to allow the bill to come up for a vote. The administration has never taken a stand on the bill.
But in a speech Thursday to the League of United Latin American Citizens annual convention in San Antonio, Bush reiterated his backing for his sweeping immigration proposals.
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