[Polybius]

What's wrong with Mexican guest workers being screened by the U.S. Government, issued a guest worker visa, coming for a specified length of time, picking the tomatos, collecting their pay and then going back to Mexico between jobs to enjoy their money?.......Polybius

Because we already have enough Hispanic culture injected into ours to last 100 years. It's spicy. It's flamboyant. It's enough.......John Filson

Well, thanks, I represent that remark since I was born in Cuba.

The Nativists of the 1800's also said "Because we already have enough Irish, German, Scandinavian, Polish, Russian, Italian, Chinese, Jewish and Catholic culture injected into ours to last 100 years. It's spicy. It's flamboyant. It's enough."

In the 21st Century, however, outside of the Appalachian hollows, it is almost impossible to find an American that a 19th Century Nativist would consider untainted by "foreign influence" so, nowadays, a different dynamic is in play.

The fact that you are sick of Hispanics, however, does not change my point which is that Guest Workers GO HOME after the job is done.

So, I ask again:

What's wrong with Mexican guest workers being screened by the U.S. Government, issued a guest worker visa, coming for a specified length of time, picking the tomatos, collecting their pay and then going back to Mexico between jobs to enjoy their money?

[WatchingInAmazement]

What's wrong with Mexican guest workers being screened by the U.S. Government, issued a guest worker visa, coming for a specified length of time, picking the tomatos, collecting their pay and then going back to Mexico between jobs to enjoy their money?

Nothing really, if it would work.

The Dept. of Homeland security admits there are 3.6 million visa overstays now in the country that they can't find.

They system is broken and no adequate vetting is done. They don't go home. 100,000 from the 1986 amnesty never bothered to "register".

The president's pet project, a massive guest worker program with six-year temporary cards, will be overseen by an agency already strapped with an alphabet soup of temporary worker plans, already impossible to enforce.

In fact, the new director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, Emilio Gonzalez, during his Senate confirmation process said, quote, "I don't think the system's -- in fact, I know the systems that exists right now wouldn't be able to handle it."

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0602/06/ldt.01.html

[La Enchiladita]

What is wrong is that we already have in the neighborhood of 20 million illegals, and a guest worker program would encourage a greater flood. The program will not work in the ideal way that you experienced with the Jamaicans at Guantanamo.

How do you feel about the preference being given to immigrants from Mexico and Central American countries in preference to other countries of origin?

We American citizens do not desire to be bigots, Polybius. We had enough of that in the past. But, there is a tremendous arrogance now among the latest wave of Latinos, who have bypassed all our laws and procedures for legal entry. They have created their own "guest worker" program and they like it!

But, as we have seen, that is not enough and they plan to dominate our culture, i.e., they demonstrate bigotry towards the people of the host nation. This poses a situation that we must resist.

[CowboyJay]

"What's wrong with Mexican guest workers being screened by the U.S. Government, issued a guest worker visa, coming for a specified length of time, picking the tomatos, collecting their pay and then going back to Mexico between jobs to enjoy their money?"

Nothing wrong with that. We already have legal provisions for people to do EXACTLY that through LEGAL immigration and work-visas. That only covers a small percentage of the ones currently here. The rest (the vast majority) simply drive-down wages for LEGAL citizens. We currently have over 12 million able-bodied American citizens out of work. There is NO job that Americans will not do provided it pays enough to take care of the bills and keep the family fed.

The 'labor-shortage' that these illegals are filling is a fictitious propaganda ploy used by the CRIMINALS who hire them to avoid paying a decent living wage to their employees. There is NO labor shortage. There is only a shortage of employers willing to obey the laws of our country and compete in the free-market for the services of US citizens.

[John Filson]

Well, thanks, I represent that remark since I was born in Cuba.

You're welcome here, but this is an Anglo-Saxon culture. If you're well-assimilated, you have a little of your old culture left, but you recognize and appreciate ours more. When do you think the tipping point will come when it will no longer be "Anglo-Saxon?"

If you think the nativists of the 1800s were worried about the same levels of immigration, compare the numbers in this post. From 2000 to 2004 we had more illegal immigration than even came through Ellis Island during the entire 1890s.

If you care about this country, you'll want to start limiting additional Hispanic immigration yourself. From your reply to mine, I see you as an advocate for the tide rising against the Anglo-Saxon core of our nation's base.

You're part of the problem, and the fact that you're Hispanic only serves as a reminder that we can't trust an overwhelming majority of Hispanics to preserve our founding values. consider the

[chris1]

Because they are paying taxes on the cash under the table hile benefitting off the public welfare systems paid for by legal u.s. taxpayers.

[hedgetrimmer]

What's wrong with Mexican guest American workers being screened by the U.S. Government, issued a guest worker visa, coming for a specified length of time, picking the tomatos, collecting their pay and then going back to Mexico home between jobs to enjoy their money?

[mathluv]

I for one do not have a problem with a guest worker program. Limits: Come here legally. Don't try to feed off gov't programs. Work, and go home, or assimilate and work.