But on Friday, Secretary Powell, while ruling out any blanket amnesty, seemed to embrace a temporary-worker program that would allow for legalization.

A Mexican reporter asked Mr. Bush why people should believe that he could deliver a temporary-worker program after having failed to do so for six years.

The bill includes a temporary-worker program, under which 400,000 to 600,000 foreign workers could be admitted to the country each year.

Practical people understand the only way to establish law and order is to create a temporary-worker program and step up enforcement to make sure people use it.

The president also wants a temporary-worker program to give legal standing to many illegal immigrants already in this country.

President Bush must ensure that any new temporary-worker program contains strong workers' rights provisions.

Since then, Mr. Bush and business groups have urged Republicans to support a temporary-worker program to help fulfill the economy's needs for labor.

They urged the adoption of a temporary-worker program.

But because there is no legal way for them to do so, through a temporary-worker program, they're putting pressure on our border.

That bill stalled after a dispute with the Senate over a temporary-worker program to let some illegal immigrants remain here.