One question:
Why would any employer hire an alien with a guest worker visa and pay the additional costs, when that same employer can continue to hire the illegal aliens for cheaper.
Tancredo's plan would halt efforts to create a guest worker program that is really an amnesty for the foreseeable future. Also, implementation of Tancredo's guest worker program is dependent on better enforcement on the border and in the interior, including against employers.
Even in the worse possible case, a guest worker program without better enforcement, we're better off than we are now because the wind will be out of the sails of the amnesty lobby.
Why would any employer hire an alien with a guest worker visa and pay the additional costs, when that same employer can continue to hire the illegal aliens for cheaper.
Some wouldn't, but some would. More would if the requirement to verify workers' right to employment was made mandatory.
There is no downside. Illegal aliens will be much less sympathetic if there's a legal avenue for imported labor. Tancredo's BE REAL Act is a good first step toward steering our immigration policies in a more positive direction.
If those who are opposed to illegal aliens fail to support Tancredo in this, what incentive do other politicians have to oppose amnesty?
That is an excellent question and I've never hear a good answer for it aside from the usual "this time around we really really really will enforce our immigration laws... Really." The market for illegal labor in America is secular, well-entrenched and backed by big money. The idea that a guest worker program will end the illegal labor market is naive in the extreme. Especially when our president babbles on in an oxymoronic way about "safe, secure Open Borders".
The only way out of this crisis is for the federal government to enforce its own laws and constitutionally bound duties to defend the nation from invasion. All the rest is just disingenuous blather.