Barbra Streisand. Every guest worker hired by a private company helps that company survive. The worker pays all taxes and contributes towards social security for seniors like myself. If the company goes bankrupt, loss to the country is much bigger. Every single person working in that company loses a job. People who object to guest worker programs are people with easily learned skills such as computer programming who are jealous because they can’t demand high wages. Programming is much easier to learn than something like chemical engineering, architectural engineering, biochemistry, pharmacist etc. There are plenty of jobs in such fields which require years of education.
It’s more than just programming/IT that gets the guest worker treatment - it wouldn’t stay there(if it was) given the incentive to expand. These programs are government interference with the job market, plain and simple.
The market would still figure out a way if the people had to make the effort to immigrate, have a pathway to citizenship, and the desire to become a productive US citizen. These are the kind of people that would want to start businesses, create jobs, and bring new ideas to the US.
I object to them out of the fraud that they create in the first place. If you want to suggest that it’s sour grapes about not being able to demand a high wage, then why would the guest worker be preferred for the same/lower skill level at the same wage? They don’t become citizens, they have significant barriers about switching employers, and are treated similarly as illegals are treated.