Posted on 08/05/2005 1:04:32 PM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
Right now, when illegal aliens sneak across the border, the press calls them "immigrants".
With a guest worker program, they would be foreigners with permission to temporarilly work in the U.S.
The solution is to have a regulated guest worker program for contracted foreign workers and then have severe sanctions for employers that violate the rules.
Right now, the Government has a Catch 22 because some of the illegal immigrant laborers are need and there are no legal replacements.
How about a bill that rolls back Teddy Kennedy's monstrous immigration act of the 1960's, and just enforces the law?
How about putting "employers" in jail when they hire illegal workers.
Evidently not.
Oh it's going to get worse, he isn't listening. I am glad he doesn't exercise his office by watching the polls but he really needs to get out and listen to his base.
Well, hang on because that's exactly what they have planned.
I see stone cold reality has hit you. I realized this right after re-election while we still savored in victory and GWB started with this nonsense again.
Bush bashers are out in full force today.
how about just go home and stay there?
the employers who hire illegals now - want to hire illegals, pay in cash, no taxes or records, etc. they aren't going to change and hire those same people as legally minted guest workers.
what this is all about is legitimate companies who would not hire an illegal (false docsuments aside) - they want access to a cheap labor pool. if this passes, Home Depot and Walmart will be sending caravans of buses to the border to pick up these newly minted guest workers as their employees, and they will fire their US based workers and/or depress their wages.
and the people who hire illegals currently - will continue to do so.
They are not going home period. If we do not kick them out now, what makes anyone believe we will kick them out then?????????????????????
As I pointed out in class (and most of the class agreed once I said it but the cowards were to scared to say the unPC thing themselves) when you hire a CEO for Ford you hire him to take care of Ford not IBM or HP or Exxon. When we elect a president, we are hiring a CEO and we are hiring him to take care of America first and to hell with the rest of the world.
Maybe it is a ploy. Maybe he is saying this for now and will totally reverse right before the mid-term election so the Dems wil be caught focusing on other stuff.
Well, one can dream can't they?
If an idea is horrible, why not bash it??
It might work out well, since we're sending all our jobs across the boarder.
Wow, Bush just doesn't get it. It is this kind of myopic viewpoint that will lose elections for Republicans. American law should protect ALL Americans, not just those with money.
Apparently Bush thinks that jobs Americans won't do include
loitering in front of hardware stores and equipment rental buisnesses or gangbanging and dealing drugs.
I guess we need even MORE unemployeed illegals in California..as if we don't have enough.
It used to be you could make a living in construction but illegals have depressed wages. Plumbing and auto mechanincs too....
McDonalds USED to be a highschooler kid's job, not job for a head of household with 8 kids.
"Bush bashers are out in full force today."
When it comes to saving my country, nobody better stand in my way.
"If you are a willing employer (and) you have somebody looking for work and you can't find an American ...."
This is a cop-out, Mr. President. You know full well employers who can get away with paying illegals $2.00 an hour under the table or some such thing are going to do it. Furthermore, WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT GAINING CONTROL OF OUR BORDERS??? Our soldiers are fighting terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan and getting killed and hurt doing it, yet those lunatics can just stroll right in here from Mexico at will if they so desire.
GWB has been so very disappointing on these issues.
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