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Executive Vice President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Eliseo Medina visited the University on Wednesday to address the SEIU's controversial position on immigration. The event was co-sponsored by the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations.

The SEIU is a union organization with over 1.8 million members from the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada who are dedicated to uniting and improving the conditions of workers. Medina is the first Mexican American to be elected to a high-ranking post at the SEIU and has made it his mission to lead the unionization of immigrants in the United States.

Medina proposed more constructive and inclusive reforms for the nation's immigration policies to repair a "broken and deeply flawed immigration system."

"Everyone should have an opportunity to aspire for the American dream," Medina said.

The future of illegal immigration policies according to President Bush's plan includes increasing border security by doubling funding from $4.6 billion to $10.4 billion. The plan also includes increasing the number of Border Patrol agents by 63 percent to 15,000 agents, and constructing a 700-mile fence that will cost 10 to 15 million dollars per mile to build.

Bush's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act has also funded 6,700 more detention beds to detain illegal immigrants.

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