[Vigilanteman]

Yes, we have a lot of temp worker programs, but too many are designed to provide employeers with cheap labour to undercut the American worker, not to address genuine shortages.

The result is that we are circumventing the 13th ammendment and creating an underclass rather than assimilatable pro-American foreigners who might actually want to adopt this country rather than milk it.

It is quite true that many illegal aliens willingly come here and work a near slavery existence because there is more hope getting ahead here than in their own country. That factoid, however, neither justifies circumventing the 13th ammendment or asking the taxpayers at large to subsidize the income and benefit packages which the exploiters of illegal alien labor are unwilling to pay.

Look at cripplecreek (Post #41) for an example of the type of immigrant we should be welcoming.

Then tell me how many exploiters of foreign worker's would be willing to put sponsorship on the line the way cripplecreek has done.

[Ben Ficklin]

Regarding the immigrant doctor, we allow many doctors into the country.

We allow a wide variation of workers with a wide variation of skills and earning capacity. These workers are worthy subjects of dicussion but are not germane to the problem of illegals.

This country need a large number of unskilled workers. The issue is how we get them.