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          Presidential Candidates' Differing Positions on Immigration

   by Liliana Henao

   Comprehensive immigration reform, more border security and
   self-deportation are some of the terms used when talking about the
   controversial issue of illegal immigration in the United States. With
   the clock ticking until the next presidential election, both candidates
   have to clarify their specific plans to bring an estimated 11 million
   of undocumented immigrants out of the shadows.
   They sparred about it in their second debate, but while President
   Barack Obama and his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, believe the U.S.
   immigration system must be reformed, they don't agree on how to achieve
   that.
   "I will not grant amnesty to those who've come here illegally, what I
   will do is I'll put in place an employment verification system and make
   sure that employers that hire people who have come here illegally are
   sanctioned for doing so," said Romney.

   Katherine Vargas, Director of Communications with the National
   Immigration Forum, says the Republican candidate has not been specific.