[Defiant]

I have no problem with a guest program where the illegals have to go home first and apply to be allowed to come here to work legally and temporarily. If they have a job they have been doing, they can come back and continue doing it, under supervision and while paying taxes. We can then send them home in a few years.

But a guest worker program that simply legalizes all the illegals in place is unacceptable. The GOP will implode if it tries to push that on us.

[One Proud Dad]

Yes, go home fist then come back with a SSN number and pay taxes.

Do away with the contract labor BS so they cannot avoid teh taxman and they will want to stay home.

[Types_with_Fist]

The GOP will implode if it tries to push that on us.

Well, hang on because that's exactly what they have planned.

[oceanview]

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.

[gubamyster]

We can then send them home in a few years.

How are you going to send them home in a few years when you can't send them home now? Especially after they have brought over their extended family, have kids born in this country, and have kids in the US school system.

The same tired arguments against sending them home now will happen "in a few years."