It would take four years to get the necessary number of states to ratify the amendment.

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An amendment reducing the number of guest-worker visas from 325, 000 a year to 200, 000 passed handily, as did another promising 370 miles of fence along the border.

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Finance Committee chair Daitihi McKay was critical of the SDLP amendment and that the party had to answer a number of questions about the detail.

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