[untrained skeptic]

1) We need to secure our borders.

2) We need to enforce and strengthen current immigration laws.

3) No Visa program sould allow people who are illegally inside the United States at the time of application to apply.

4) Immigration law should focus on the benefitting the United States, not on benefitting others. It is quite possible to benefit others while benefitting the US, however the primary concern is what is best for the US, not trying to solve the world's problems.

[freedumb2003]

Freedumb2003's Guest Worker Program

1. Only offer jobs when a potential worker is matched to a true opening at prevailing wages (we could borrow from the Cal State system to determine "prevailing wages") to ensure we don't push down the local economy.
2. Require that the guest worker apply from and in his/her native country
3. Require and that there be regular "breaks" where they have to return to their country for 3 or 4 contiguous weeks per year.
4. No family allowed, except for brief visits here. They worker can visit their native country all they want, within the normal limits of employment agreements.
5. After a certain number of years of following the rules, they could apply for temporary permanent residency and them follow the standard path to permanent residency and citizenship now in place.
6. The employer would be required to offer health insurance, at the most reasonable rates possible, and it would be mandatory for the guest worker to enroll and pay for it.
7. No particular country would be "preferred" and participant slots would be reflective of the respective native country's overall population, with caps established by a commission.
8. I think all this makes too much sense to ever be done