Ben, you're not following immigration obviously, I've been doing it for years. It was Ted Kennedy in 1990 who pushed for the diversity visa lottery program to assist more Irish and others who might want to immigrate to the country. If you don't believe me tough, look it up through google.
Speaking of running the mouth, since you believe a guest worker program will somehow magically stop illegal immigration please show me one instance where this has actually occurred. I'll be waiting patiently for your response.
We have the H2B non-agworker visa that allows 68,000 temp workers per year. Lets estimate the number of illegals whose work would be classified under the H2B at 8 million.
Ag worker visas? again a low quota and 2 million illegals.
These visas quotas are set so low, they are essentially not a guest worker program.As a result we have 10 million illegals. Yet you say the key is to have no work visas
On the other hand, what about the other temp worker visas that are working:
Tech worker Visas- no illegals
Nurse Visas-no illegals
Crew worker Visas-no illegals
There are also many other work visas(such as professors,salesmen,etc) working well without illegals
You would think that if an illegal will come for $5.15/hr, an illegal would come for 40 thou/year?
According to your thoery, we need to get rid of the programs that are working.
Lets face it. You don't want mexicans here whether they are legal or not.