Ask the leading Republican presidential candidates about dealing with illegal immigration, and inevitably the answer focuses on tightening border security and building fences.

What voters aren't hearing a lot about is giving legal status, under certain conditions, to illegal immigrants in the United States, even though each of the top three GOP candidates has supported such a policy.

The reason has a lot to do with a deep fissure in the GOP base: Business and industry are demanding more low-wage workers, while grass-roots conservatives are demanding that those workers be shipped home.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070424/ap_on_el_pr/immigration_republicans

[Wow, such diversity of opinions within one party! Vote repulicans, they are equally for everyone's interest!]