The Senate has voted to limit the number of guest-workers that would be allowed in the United States under the proposed immigration bill. On Wednesday, senators approved an amendment that would cap the program at 200,000 workers. The original bill proposed as many as 600,000 workers, but only until the expiration of their permit. Critics say the provision will depress wages and create a new underclass of workers. The overall bill has come under intense criticism from immigrant rights advocates.

Maywood, California, resident Maribel Nunez: “This is nothing new, because Mexicans are the only ones doing any work. Nobody does any work but the Mexicans, and now they do not want them? If it was a war, they would call them to fight, but not to work? I don’t know. I don’t know what to say. It makes me mad.”