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Out West
President Bush today winds up his West Coast swing with an immigration speech in Irvine, California and a Las Vegas campaign event for Rep. Jon. Porter, R-Nevada.
In Irvine, Bush will pitch his “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” concept. The daily White House Morning Update, an administration-friendly digest of the president’s schedule and the morning’s headlines, says Bush will tout a “temporary worker program that rejects amnesty, allows foreign workers to fill jobs no American is willing to do and reduces smuggling and crime at the border.”
In Las Vegas, Bush will be backing a GOP congressman who has been voting in favor of immigration legislation that does not align with the president’s thinking. Porter voted for the punishment-heavy measure approved earlier this year by the House and opposed an amendment that would have treated violations as misdemeanors instead of felonies.
As is its custom, today’s White House Morning Update is heavy on morning headlines about progress in Iraq and Afghanistan, but devoid of mention of a Washington Post headline saying “Inspectors Find More Torture at Iraqi Jails” or the Los Angeles Times editorial calling for Vice President Cheney’s resignation.
“I haven’t read the L.A. Times editorial,” Press Secretary Scott McClellan said Sunday when asked about it.
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