Because employers would have a legal pool of labor and wouldn't want to risk hiring illegals. Thus illegals will have reason to come over.
Does an illegal immigrant who arrives after this thing would start get to apply for this also, therefore becoming a guest worker too?
Not as currently conceived. If that were to be the case the whole thing would be pointless. I suppose Congress could screw it up though.
Now every single construction company in the U.S has to only pay its workers minimum wage.
If construction work is really so economically valuable then we could just raise the minimum wage.
What would be the risk in hiring illegals as opposed to the risk Now?
If construction work is really so economically valuable then we could just raise the minimum wage.
Well I know I worked as a surveyor when I was in my twenties on a 5 mile piece of highway in Dallas that was bid at $250,000,000 and that was only one of three sections. I know there is highway construction right now going on north of Dallas that is certainly bid more than that. I know home builders have been building like crazy for the last 5 or so years putting up quarter of a million dollar houses all over in the DFW metroplex. I assume that is happening in other cities as well so I would say that is a lot of money flowing into the system.