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"Even as a guest worker program it is seriously lacking."

What specifically?

" It is widely accepted that the tech worker and nurses guest worker programs work very well, but Tanc wants to change them. Dumb. "

Widely accepted amongst who? Tancredo's program streamlines the current mess. "Eliminates current H-1B (high-tech), H-1B1 (Chile/Singapore high-tech), H-1C (nurses), H-2A (agricultural), and H-2B (seasonal or temporary) nonimmigrant visas and replaces them with a single H nonimmigrant visa for all needed workers, skilled and unskilled.

And the best part. "...allows H nonimmigrant visas to be issued only when— No qualified and lawfully present workers are available to perform the work, and no such workers could be trained in under a year to perform the work."

Tancredo needs to step up to the plate and say what he intends to do about 20 million illegals.

Why do you continue to say this? He has been very vocal about what he intends to do;
Tom Tancredo:" If we in fact were to begin enforcing the law against people who are hiring people who are here illegally, we would go a long way towards eliminating the problem. Because if you dry up demand, you naturally dry up supply. If we had true enforcement of our laws from an employers stand point, then you would find that many of the millions of people who are here would go back home. Then the ones who remain, we could begin deporting -- and yes I mean deporting. The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation.

But you can only do all of this if you secure your own borders. Because what's the use of rounding up and deporting millions of people if you in the meantime leave your borders wide open so they simply turn around and walk back in? You must do two things simultaneously. You must secure your borders and begin enforcement of immigration law -- or the third option is to repeal the laws. Don't be so hypocritical as to pretend that we have immigration policy. Don't be so cynical, so despicable, that we send people to the border and tell them that their job is stop people from coming in here illegally and then simply ignore the fact that they're being swamped. What you've done is told people to go to the border, given them a sieve, and told them to stop the flood. Those are our only options, we have no other decisions to make. I want the President of the United States of America to tell the people what he wants to do. Does he want to enforce the law and protect or borders or not?"