On Tuesday, Republican party platform drafters agreed to include language calling for a foreign guest worker program that could provide more American businesses with a font of legal and willing employees.
Also included in the platform is a call to complete a border fence along the U.S.–Mexico line, an end of in-state tuition for undocumented students, a ban on policies that create sanctuary cites, and mandatory use of the e-verify database. Sanctuary cities are communities where police and other public officials are generally prohibited from inquiring about the immigration people's status unless absolutely necessary, while e-verify is a federal database used to verify workers' eligibility to hold a job in the United States.
The draft platform, which will not be finalized until the party's delegates gather in Tampa, Fla., next week, represents a Republican attempt to balance the concerns of one section of the party with another. On one side sits often far-right immigration hardliners, such as Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and others concerned about what they see as problems caused by the 11 to 12 million undocumented immigrants. On the other side are more moderate Republicans, such as Brad Bailey, a Texas city councilman, restaurant owner and driving force behind the guest worker proposal which he calls the "Texas immigration solution."
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