Hmm -- well what about taking the knowledge gained here and taking it back to their countries and using it to better their countries and not just their own families?
The 300,000 have had 5 years to make anchor babies. No good deed goes unpunished.
What ?!
That is just plain stupid.
It's also unbelievably arrogant to argue that these countries can't or won't take care of their own disasters. ..noblesse oblige.
Send the Salvadoreños back home. It's their home, for better or worse. THEN they can try to come to this country legally and on their own.
We don't need any more "huddled masses."
We need more AmerICANs, not refugees, evacuees, sick, poor, broke and INSTANT welfare recipients.
We are supposed to be here in life to give, not to take. We have enough to take care of with our very own, home-grown sick, incapacitated, poor&elderly, down&out and free-loaders.
Here is exactly what will occur IF "guest worker" programs are put into place and practice. Many to most "guest workers" will plea reason to remain in the country -- children, sick parent/s, car broke down, political persucution, bought a house so can't leave, in debt so can't leave, emotional duress, racism, need an operation, lost my I.D. and on and on -- after their "guest worker" status is set to expire, with many attorneys ready and at the wait to sue the U.S. and individual states for a variety of reasons to force the continued presence in the country of the "guest worker" at issue.
These are the facts and familiar behaviors over time of nearly all who arrive in the U.S. illegally, and that is that they impose upon the country and insist the country accommodate them.
This story represents most of the realities in real time and real lives as to why I won't support "guest worker" programs -- because I know human nature and I know that "guest worker" programs are gateway programs that will encourage even more illegal immigration and illegal aliens afterward.
About these people, this story, they need to go home. They can go home and apply for immigration and citizenship afterward and then return the legal way after completing that process, just like every other million-upon-millions of legal immigrants.
The U.S. has to start being firm in enforcing citizenship and immigration laws, despite the hardships involved. The sanctity and significance and worth of citizenship is involved here.
Someone added the keyword, "immigrants" to this thread and I'm wondering why. They are not immigrants but guests. Some of them were here illegally as illegal aliens who were then included in a program definin them as guests with temporary status.
None of them immigrated with legal process otherwise, nor appears to be involved in working toward citizenship on their own merits/efforts, at least that's not explained in this article that any are.
One Happy Hemisphere -- only 'trusted travelers'(as the CFR calls them), don't want to go home. This should have been anticipated, no matter how many jobs/industries we send south. 'How can you gonna keep 'em down on the farm once they've seen Paree'? Well, if bin Laden nukes the US, I suppose that might send some scurrying back home. Or maybe not.
The same as before you came here, sheeesh.