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.
As long as the borders are the wild west ANY amnesty will produce another (bigger) tsunami of illegals.
Sorry, no illegal immigrant laborers are needed and there are plenty of replacements.
Yeah, right.
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Been there, done that -- back in 1986, remember? We were gonna get tough with people who employed illegals back then, too, remember?
Right now, the Government has a Catch 22 because some of the illegal immigrant laborers are need and there are no legal replacements.
That statement is correct, if you add the qualifying phrase, "at the kind of wages that are popular with sweatshop employers in Manila, Canton, and Guam."