As we improve and expand our efforts to secure our borders, we must also recognize that enforcement cannot work unless it's part of a comprehensive immigration reform that includes a temporary worker program. If an employer has a job that no American is willing to take, we need to find a way to fill that demand by matching willing employers with willing workers from foreign countries on a temporary and legal basis. I'll work with members of Congress to create a program that will provide for our economy's labor needs without harming American workers, and without granting amnesty, and that will relieve pressure on our borders.
A critical part of any temporary worker program is ensuring that our immigration laws are enforced at work sites. America is a country of laws; we must not allow dishonest employers to flout those laws. So we've doubled the resources for work site enforcement since 2004.
We have much more work ahead of us. But the Homeland Security bill I signed this week provides vital support for our efforts to deal with the problem of illegal immigration, and make all Americans safer and more secure.
Thank you for listening.
I see we are trottong out the same old dog and pony show called , "Guest Worker Program". At a time when both parties are beginning to jockey for being a hawk on illegal immigration, we have the President promoting amnesty, he can call it what he likes, for Mexicans who are easily transported back across the border while at the same time they are setting up "expediated proccessing' for non-Mexicans who will have to be flown back home at a much higher expense. Typical Washington math I'm afraid.
He's on the wrong side of this issue, and he will burn much political capital in this fight much like the Meir's debacle. In the end he will lose this fight because the American people are sick of open borders. It's almost like 9/11 never happened.
BTTT!