Illegal immigrants set to gather next month to convince Government to grant them resident status
Immigration campaigners are calling on the Government to allow people who have been illegally residing in the UK for the past four years and are of good standing to apply for the right to remain.

The campaign has the support of trade unions and churches across the country. The organisers believe that regularisation would make it easier to police undesirable elements in British society and help to enforce a stricter immigration policy.

Groups from the left and the right proposed amendments up to the last minute, as senators tried to balance criticism of the Bush administration with loyalty to US troops in Iraq.
Several Republicans supported the resolution, but there were not enough to block the efforts of White House loyalists in the Senate to prevent it from coming to a vote.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell described