And the proposal calls for granting legal residency to undocumented agricultural workers already employed on American farms.
Her current finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, this week called for granting the right to a top E.U. official to veto member states' budgets if they violated deficit rules.
A number of conservative, Kremlin-connected figures have praised Mr. Snowden as a defender of human rights and called for granting asylum.
The coalition called for granting legal status to more than 300,000 immigrants who fled wars and political chaos in Haiti, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala and applied unsuccessfully for refugee status.
The second provision calls for granting legal status to 300,000 immigrants who fled wars and political chaos in Haiti, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Liberia, and applied unsuccessfully for refugee status.
Mr. Clinton also called for granting legal status to some groups of longtime illegal immigrants, although many lawmakers have balked at that proposal in the past.
This week, labor leaders, meeting in Los Angeles, called for granting amnesty to the nation's six million illegal immigrants, a sharp change from labor's traditional anti-immigrant stance.
The demonstrators called for granting legal status to illegal immigrants, for creating more family reunification visas and for increased workplace protections for immigrants because they are often exploited on the job.
Yesterday's forum came six weeks after the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations reversed its longstanding policy and called for granting legal status to all illegal aliens and repealing laws that bar employers from hiring illegal immigrants.
The iPad purchase has been controversial not just because the original proposal called for granting the entire contract to Apple and Pearson, but because of the huge expenditure of bond money for expensive devices that some people viewed as unnecessary.
