And you actually believe this will work.
The majority of illegal aliens are being paid well below minimum wage, with no benefits, which is way these are called “Jobs Americans Won’t Do”.
As an employer, why would I want to hire a Citizen or a Guest Worker that cost me more money to employ and has rights under our laws, when illegal aliens are better them slaves.
No guest worker program will ever work, without a complete revamping of our immigration and labor laws.
Definitely a sticky problem but something has to be done.
I'm sure that once we start to do something changes can be made to perfect it over time.
If we have to pay more for some things it's better than paying taxes that get eaten up by services to illegals and we wind up closing emergency rooms and having overcrowded schools and jails and welfare roles.
At least somebody is willing to do something.
The status quo is definitely not working and will not fix itself.
Is it reasonable to assume that most ILLEGAL aliens get employment "on the books" using phony / stolen SSNs? At least there are surely large numbers of them.
I remain fascinated by the SSA's Earnings Suspense File (ESF). There are many years' data and somewhere around 250 million earnings documents in the file. The file has been used to reconstruct the earnings history once an ILLEGAL has a valid SSN.
Personally I am no longer concerned about the ILLEGAL immigrants' disrespect for our laws and sovereignty including document fraud. The blame lies elsewhere a little googling shows me.
IMO for at least two decades our greedy political and business hacks invited the ILLEGAL aliens with the promise, "Come, work hard and work cheap and we will not enforce our laws. You will be safe."
Now things are out of hand but IMO the President's fix is wrong.