2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, March 8, 2006 NATION/WORLD Estimate says 12 million illegal 'nn and inU.S. NEW S N NEW YORK 01 AP PHOTO President Bush emerges from the Crawford Fire Station after voting in the Texas state primary election yesterday. Patriot Atpackage. . keeps 16 provisions Illegal immigrants from Mexico are staying longer in U.S., finding it harder to move across borders WASHINGTON (AP) - The number ofillegal immigrants in the United States has grown to as many as 12 million, and they now account for about one in every 20 workers, a new estimate says. Efforts to curb illegal immigra- tion have not slowed the pace, said a report yesterday by the Pew His- panic Center. Instead, the report's author said, those efforts are having an unin- tended consequence: People who illegally enter the United States from Mexico are staying longer because it is harder to move back and forth across the border. "The security has done more to keep people from going back to Mexico than it has to keep them from coming in," said Jeffrey Pas- sel, a senior research associate at the center. It is difficult to accurately measure the number of illegal immigrants in the United States, but most public agencies and private groups had set- tled on a figure of about 11 million. The Pew Hispanic Center used Census Bureau data to estimate that the United States had 11.1 million illegal immigrants in March 2005. The center used monthly population estimates to project a current total of 11.5 million to 12 million. The report estimates that 850,000 illegal immigrants have arrived in United States each year since 2000. President Bush has called for a program that would grant temporary worker status to illegal immigrants already here. The House rejected the program and instead passed a border security bill last year that leaned toward lawmakers who were calling for a crackdown. The Senate is trying to address both border security and the tempo- rary worker program, but consensus has been elusive. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) has said he hopes his panel will produce a bill by the end of March. There are about 7.2 million undocumented workers in the U.S., or about 5 percent of the country's work force, the Pew report said. It estimated that illegal immi- grants fill a quarter of all agricul- tural jobs, 17 percent of office and house cleaning positions, 14 percent of construction jobs and 12 percent in food preparation. "Especially if we look at the Mexi- cans, these are people with fairly low levels of formal education," Passel said. "They're not able to get licens- ing or credentials in the United States because of their status, so the kinds of jobs available to them in the United States are somewhat limited." Business leaders and advocates for 'immigrants' rights argue that America's economy would col- lapse 'if all the illegal workers were deported. "Undocumented immigrants do pay taxes, and they do contribute to the economic, social and cultural developments of their communities," said Peta Ikambana of the American Friends Service Committee. The group was organizing a rally near the Capitol yesterday to protest the House bill. "Just building walls will not stop immigration," Ikambana said. "Those that are here will just go underground." Steven Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies, which advo- cates tougher border enforcement, said he isn't surprised that the num- ber of illegal immigrants continues to climb. He called the government's crackdown halfhearted at best. Camarota pointed to a recent gov- ernment report showing that very few businesses are fined for hiring illegal immigrants. The govern- ment filed only three notices that it intended to fine companies in 2004, down from 417 notices in 1999, according to a report by the Govern- ment Accountability Office. Camarota said there would be plenty of Americans willing to accept jobs done by illegal immi- grants if they paid adequate wages and benefits. New book describes Bonds's drug use Barry Bonds used a vast array of performance-enhancing drugs, including steroids and human growth hormone, for at least five seasons beginning in 1998, according to a book written by two San Francisco Chronicle reporters. An excerpt from "Game of Shadows," which details the San Francisco slugger's extensive doping program, appears in the March 13 issue of Sports Illustrated. "I won't even look at it. For what? There's no need to," Bonds said yes- terday at Giants camp in Scottsdale, Ariz. The Giants said Bonds would not comment any further. Bonds, who testified before a California federal grand jury looking into steroid use by top athletes, repeatedly has denied using performance-enhancing drugs. "I've read what was reported," Bonds's agent, Jeff Borris, told The Associated Press. "Barry is looking forward to playing this year and the improved health of his knee, and being as productive as he's ever been." Phone messages left by the AP seeking comment from Bonds' attorney and pub- licist were not immediately returned yesterday. Baseball did not ban performance-enhancing drugs until after the 2002 season. Authors Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, who led the newspaper's cov- erage of the BALCO scandal, recount in remarkable detail the specifics of Bonds' drug regimen, which they write started in 1998 with injections of Winstrol, a pow- erful steroid also linked to Rafael Palmeiro. SUGAR LAND, Tex. DeLay beats back Republican challengers * Rep. Tom DeLay tried to beat back three challengers for the Republican nomination yesterday in his first election since he was indicted and forced to step aside as House majority leader. While DeLay was widely expected to win, a close race could foretell a tough contest for the congressman in the fall. For his part, DeLay said he was confident his constituents would see the campaign-finance case against him for what it is: "a leftist abuse of power." The other big Texas primary race yesterday pitted two little-known Dem- ocrats against each other for the right to challenge Republican Gov. Rick Perry in a state where the GOP holds every statewide office. Perry had little GOP opposition. Texas voters could see a historic four-way race for governor in November if two independents with considerable political charisma - Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn and musician and professional wiseacre Kinky Fried- man - gather enough signatures from voters who do not vote in the primary to get onto the fall ballot. WASHINGTON Republicans move to block Dubai port sale House Republican leaders yesterday embraced legislation that would block a Dubai-owned company from taking over operations at several U.S. ports, brushing aside a veto threat from President Bush. "We want to make sure that the security of our ports are in America's hands," said Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.) whose House Appropriations Committee planned to approve the measure today. The move marks the latest step in a Republican revolt in Congress unlike any other in'Bush's five years in office. The president has yet to veto any legislation, and GOP leaders have been careful to avoid sending him any- thing that he wouldn't sign. Changes to controversial act includes new restrictions on information gathering WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress was poised to send President Bush a renewal of the Patriot Act yesterday night after months of bitter fighting, authorizing law enforcement to keep its anti-terror tools but with some new curbs on government prying. A final House vote and Bush's signa- ture would make 14 provisions of the 2001 law permanent before they expired on March 10. Two other provisions would have expired in four years. A two-month Senate filibuster fueled by the revelation that Bush had authorized secret, warrant- less wiretapping forced Congress to postpone the original Dec. 31 expiration deadline - twice. The standoff forced the White House to accept some new restrictions on information gathering in terrorism investigations. Adding those protections gave the legislation enough support to pass the Senate overwhelmingly. During a push for passage in Decem- ber, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said the monitoring and investigating authorized by the act had helped pre- vent specific planned attacks. "The tools of the Patriot Act have been extremely valuable in allowing us to deter and prevent attacks, to pros- ecute terrorism and to prosecute other kinds of crimes," Gonzales said. "Intense congressional and public scrutiny has not produced a single substantiated claim that the Patriot has been misused to violate Ameri- cans' civil liberties," House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensen- brenner (R-Wis.) said yesterday. "Opponents of the legislation have relied upon exaggeration and hyper- bole to distort a demonstrated record of accomplishment and success." Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) the law's chief critic, said the new protections for Americans are so modest they are almost meaningless. And the bill's chief Senate author, Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) has intro- duced a new bill "to provide extra protections that better comport with my sensitivity of civil rights." For now, Bush will be signing a pack- age on which both chambers of Congress and the president can agree. The package renews 16 expiring previsions of the original Patriot Act, including one that allows federal offi- cials to obtain "tangible items" like business records, including those from libraries and bookstores, for foreign intelligence and international terrorism investigations. Other provisions would clarify that foreign intelligence or counterintelli- gence officers should share information obtained as part of a criminal investi- gation with counterparts in domestic law enforcement agencies. Forced by Feingold's filibuster, Con- gress and the White House have agreed to new curbs on the Patriot Act's powers. These restrictions would: Give recipients of court-approved subpoenas for information in terrorist investigations the right to challenge a requirement that they refrain from tell- ing anyone. Eliminate a requirement that an individual provide the FBI with the name of a lawyer consulted about a National Security Letter, which is a demand for records issued by investigators. i Clarify that most libraries are not subject to demands in those let- ters for information about suspected terrorists. CORRECTIONS - Compiled from Daily wire reports Iraqi prime minister vows to run for second term An article on page 8 of yesterday's Daily (Goalie situation uncertain for Icers) incorrectly identified former Michigan goalie Josh Blackburn as Dan Blackburn. Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michigandaily.com. tibe 1Mkbigun + 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com Rumsfeld rejects idea that Iraq is engaged in a civil war BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraq's Shiite prime minister declared yesterday he will not be blackmailed into aban- doning his bid for a second term, and the Kurdish president bowed to Shi- ite pressure to delay calling parlia- ment into session until a deadlock is resolved over who should lead a unity government. A new video broadcast on Arab television, meanwhile, showed three of the four hostage Christian Peace- maker activists. American Tom Fox was not present. In Washington, U.S. Defense Sec- retary Donald Rumsfeld rejected suggestions Iraq is engulfed in a civil war but predicted there would be additional "bursts" of sectarian vio- lence in the weeks ahead. Rumsfeld also claimed that Iranian Revolutionary Guard elements had infiltrated Iraq to cause trouble. "They are currently putting people into Iraq to do things that are harm- ful to the future of Iraq," he said. "And we know it. And it is some- thing that they, I think, will look back on as having been an error in judgment." He would not be more specific except to say the infiltrators were members of the Al Quds Division of Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Rumsfeld asserted that media reports have exaggerated the vio- lence in Iraq since an attack last month on a revered Shiite mosque touched off a wave of violent repri- sals between sects. "I do not believe they are in a civil war today," Rumsfeld said. On yesterday, scattered bombings, mor- tar blasts and gunfire killed 16 people. The unrelenting violence has complicated already snarled negoti- ations to form a government reflect- ing Iraq's main ethnic and religious communities, which the United tntS -adi allie shone mmwisa- of a personal dispute with President Jalal Talabani, who is at the center of a campaign by Kurdish, Sunni and some secular Shiite politicians to deny him a second term. "No one can make bargains with me by enlarging personal disagree- ments," al-Jaafari told reporters at his office. "Dr. al-Jaafari will not be subdued by blackmail. Dr. al-Jaafari is not violating the constitution." The Sunni Arab minority blames him for failing to control Shiite mili- tiamen, who attacked Sunni mosques and clerics after the Feb. 22 bombing of a sacred Shiite shrine in Samarra. Kurds are angry because they believe al-Jaafari is holding up resolution of their claims to control the oil-rich city of Kirkuk. In a bid to force a showdown in the dispute, Talabani said yesterday he would order parliament into ses- sion March 12 for the first time since the December elections and the Feb. 12 ratification of the results in line with constitutional directives. Such a meeting would have started a 60-day countdown for lawmakers to elect a president, approve al-Jaafari's nomi- nation as prime minister and sign off on his Cabinet. Talabani was mistakenly counting on the signature of Vice President Adil Abdul-Mahdi, a Shiite who lost his own bid for the prime minister's nomination by one vote to al-Jaaf- ari. Talabani had in hand a power of attorney from the other vice presi- dent, Ghazi al-Yawer, a Sunni, who was out of the country. The Shiite bloc closed ranks and Abdul-Mahdi declined to sign, for now. A political committee represent- ing the seven Shiite parties that make up the United Iraqi Alliance, the largest group in parliament, sent Talabani a letter yesterday asking him to delay the first session until there is agreement on who should occupy top government positions, said Khaled al-Attiyah, an indepen- dent member of the alliance. Parlia- ment speaker Hajim al-Hassani said a new date wouid he st tnmorrow. DoNN M. 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