[Polybius]

Open borders and unaccountable corporations that hire illegals ALREADY BENEFIT from the taxpayer's subsidy of illegal workers --- So what is new Bush? Still the same old amnesty shell game...

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.

[jb6]

The only "excuse" the government has for not upholding Federal Laws is fact lobbyist pay checks.

[johnb838]

As long as the borders are the wild west ANY amnesty will produce another (bigger) tsunami of illegals.

[Marine Inspector]

Right now, the Government has a Catch 22 because some of the illegal immigrant laborers are need and there are no legal replacements.

Sorry, no illegal immigrant laborers are needed and there are plenty of replacements.

[lentulusgracchus]

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.

Yeah, right.

</sarc>

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."