What industry could use untrained, foreign speaking, illiterate mexicans, that already isn't employing them? Not enacting a guest worker program will certainly keep the status quo, which means that al queda can ship bad folks across the border at any time. And it means that once illegals are here, there's no reason for them to go home, as a guest worker program would require.
Think about this for awhile. This is not a hard problem to fix, if people would just open their mind and think. We need unskilled workers. Mexico has lots of them. It's easy to sneak them across the boarder illegally, so they come. The only good solution will *require* that it be easier to be legal than not. That can be any combination of border security and guest worker system, but it *must* be easier to be legal than not, or we will continue to swell the illegal ranks until Azatlan is real.
For those workers who stay, we should require they learn english, and US history, and become "Americans". And we should not tolerate mexican language and culture in the broader culture, so we completely assimilate mexicans as we did the Italians, Germans etc. before.
it doesn't take much training to stack boxes at Home Depot or Lowes, or unload a truck. I could go on and on.
this al qaeda thing is a total red herring. AQ needs to send small teams of people into the US. 20, 30. no level of border security is going to be able to stop a dedicated, well funded team of 20 people from getting into the country.