[el_texicano]

I haven't posted much about President Bush's proposal for "guest workers". I have been studying this issue and trying to understand it myself. I cannot support what I understand the President is proposing. Perhaps there is mor to understand. I very much want to give his plan a fair hearing, but as I said from what I've heard of it, I can't support it.

It is here in this forum that I have an opportunity to hear the pro's and the con's. Jim Rob you cannot know how much I personally appreciate this forum and your handling of it. You have been the most tolerant person I know in dealing with malcontents. More so than I. I salute you sir and thank you.

There was a saying in our church meetings, "There is room for disagreement, but there is no room for disagreeableness."

[KiloLima]

The problem with the "guest worker" proposal is in the enforcement, the creation of yet-another bureaucracy to administer same, and then there's the generous 3-year time limit, at the end of which, the "guest worker" will return to country of origin. . . ? There is no guarantee.

Before we even contemplate a "guest worker" program, we need to seal the porous border and face the fact that we have criminals in our midst: persons who entered this country illegally, remain illegally and a great number of whom reside in our prisons.