[jackbenimble]

I posted an article like this a few days ago but this one is better.

These articles about Central American Guests with temporary visas are instructive because they offer cyrstal ball like insite into how the President's Guestworker Bill will playout 6 years from now when the visas start to expire and the guests start to revert back to illegal status.

Two things are clear: 1) the guests will not leave willingly and will stay illegally if that is their only choice for staying; and 2)the Government will have a very tough time mustering the political will to make them leave.

This article is only talking about 370,000 Central Americans. Can you imagine how much harder this will be when it is 11 million?

There is nothing more permanent than a guest!

[Semper Paratus]

Why didn't they go to Mexico?

Because the Mexican authorities would have deported them after administering a severe beating.

[One Proud Dad]

Not our responsibility.

[CondorFlight]

"the Government will have a very tough time mustering the political will to make them leave."

This is why I consider one of the 'myths' of the immigration debate is the idea that we will ever be sending back those who are already here.

They're here; and they do contribute to our society. So let's go ahead and not bellyache about educating their children in our schools; those kids are our future citizens.

If you don't want any more illegals, you MIGHT be able to seal the borders; but those who are here are staying.

[taxed2death]

....so how exactly is CAFTA / NAFTA helping this guy out again?

I must have missed something....lost in the sauce...

[Froufrou]

Hey, what're you doing over here?

"If we had a greater variety of ways for people to earn the privilege of staying here, things would work themselves out" when Central America recovers, Butterfield said. "Many people would welcome the opportunity to go back home," and others could choose to stay."

I think this is utter crap, don't you?

[DumpsterDiver]

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[mthom]

I love how the same people saying "They cant be deported now and if we did wed be like the Nazis!" then try to say after the guest worker period is over they be all for deporting the new illegals. Liars.

[gubamyster]

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[dennisw]

Are you aware that we've been giving temporary protected status to Central Americans since the mid 1980s? That none of these people ever left? That this farce turned into a huge de facto amnesty

[grania]

This technique is SO OLD. Whenever people actually get a law passed that huge majorities of citizens want, all of a sudden the media is filled with sob stories about extreme individual situations. Never anything about solutions within that law, of course, just attempts to stir up controversy and undermine the law.

I'd be more impressed with stories of government attempts to enforce laws.

[Dante3]

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