Posted on 02/09/2005 9:01:35 AM PST by kellynla
Now it's up to Congress to say no thanks.
There may be two lines as you say, but they're line jumping whichever one you choose. Anyway, our illegal immigrant population, from the looks of things, are in "immigrant" mode - since their numbers are constantly increasing. The dream of returning home is precisely that - a dream. They'll probably be buried in Mexico, but that's about it. That may have not been their intention at the start, but it is now their reality. And that's just another reason why shoe-horning them into a guest worker program won't work. A half-dozen or dozen years in the US is not going to put them far enough ahead to where they'll head back to Mexico. We're not seeing that in practice.
Let's hope Congress has the guts to stand firm and say "no way!"
So what if they stay? If we need their labor then they need to stay.
But even if you did completely away with them companies would still be hard-pressed to find Americans willing to work for minimum wage with no benefits as illegals are.
So yes they are driving down wages and forcing Americans to compete with an illegally imported labor pool. Take illegals out of the picture and you'd see wages slowly rise.
Delay's comments today were not encouraging but we got to keep on these politicians. No one I talk to wants anything to do with another guest worker program.
Well, we don't need their labor, so they can go home and enrich Vicente Fox's economy. We can phase them out and get citizens or legal workers to replace them.
HaHaHa...You got to be a politician with double-speak like that...
Unions are hiring "undocumented" immigrants.
Legal workers are what a guest worker program is all about.
How old are you?
If the Republicans do not get this issue in hand and quickly, they will find themselves in trouble starting with the next election. This one can not be ignorned. There is no deal to make.
You've had some very good posts here, Kelly.
Thanks for your courage, and thank you for your service to our country in the Marines!
Regards
...so they can go home and enrich Vicente Fox's economy.
On average $15 billion a year in remittances flow from the US to Mexico annually, benefiting the Mexican economy.
All the employer has to do is be vewy vewy quiet about the job so no American knows about it, or require the applicant to be a fluent speaker of spanish. That's why this crap about jobs Americans won't do is such malarky. It's a scam.
That amnesty comparison tables of the various bills in Congress is very good! (post #44)
And all that has done is to increase Mexican immigration to the US. I wonder how much of those remittances actually become seed money to finance chain migration (i.e. pay the bus fare, coyote, tourist visa application fees, etc.)?
Good question! LOL
Yea like that would happen........
He needs to lay aside his "Partisan" card and get back in the issues that are about to bury all of us. Here we have another Gingrich clone who lost his way!
This 1998 article says DeLay favored guest workers way back then.
"House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-TX) has vowed to create a guest worker program for Mexican workers in the United States. DeLay is especially concerned about severe worker shortages in the garment industry. . .According to DeLay, the lack of a guest worker program is forcing many companies to move operations out of the United States."
http://www.visalaw.com/98feb/04feb98.html
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