Under any proposal, Congress would need to revisit the quota for employers to sponsor lower-skilled worker for green cards, which is limited to a very low 5, 000 a year under current law.

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In her everyday life she wears the green uniform of an NHS ambulance worker.

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At one point, one worker holds up a sausage covered in green mould, saying it would be cleaned, dried and re-used.

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It is a chance to stay in the country legally for six years, and then to apply for a green card in one of the categories that currently exist as a skilled or unskilled worker or family member, to get to the back of the line, to pay a fine, to learn English, to pay taxes.

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There is loss in efficiency--it now takes 34 worker-hours to make a dining room table, up from 25--but Green thinks that price is worth paying.

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