The worst part of Bush's proposals are the "guest worker" program.
Why? What could be worse than 12 million getting amnesty and becoming citizens?
How about 30 million "guest workers", here most of the time, with perpetually renewed "guest worker" cards, never citizens, always with political allegiance to their "home" country - predominately Mexico - always culturaly and socially never quite here and never quite home, because of their "guest" status and ambiguous political "rights".
In the matters that will affect them most - where they work, they will have no rights, and in matters where they have rights - at home - they will have little involvement.
Mexico has already started action to "solve" this issue.
The Mexican parliament is working on legislation to establish "districts" in the U.S. where Mexican nationals living here will elect - in regular election campaigns - their own representatives IN MEXICO'S PARLIAMENT. In other words, Mexico is already establishing the means for its own political districts in the U.S. And where are our Constitutional provisions for such a change in the political framework of our own territory? Non-existant of course, as should be the case.
Yet, who - Bush??, McPain, McFrist????? Who is working against this possibility?? No One. And who here will utlimately decide it??? The Supremes.
NO GUEST WORKER PROGRAM. IT IS A TIME BOMB INSIDE A TROJAN HORSE.
Every existing nation in the world that currently has large guest worker programs are ALL socially and politically dysfunctional nations and/or near dictatorships.
(Phillipines, who has a huge significant portion of its work force working semi-permanently in nations spread from Asia to the Middle East and it is politically and economically dysfunctional; UAE/Dubai, absolutely dependent on a huge non-citizen (never can be citizen) foreign, permanent "guest worker" force - fuedal sheikdom; Mexico who gets more money from its workers here than any source of foreign exchange from trade, including more than what it earns from its sizeable oil exports)
Countries that need large numbers of guest workers, or that send large numbers of their citizens out as guest workers have systemic failures, internally with their political economy.
In the US, massive input of cheap labor means that capital is too often used to expand existing labor-model production, keeping wages and the needed skill-set of labor low. It is a short term "fix"; because nations that do not rely on cheap labor keep reinventing work with constant upgrading of labor saving technology, particularly in manufacturing. And, because their work-model keeps improving, your need for cheaper labor keeps growing. Like Japan for instance, who, in the opposite way has hardly any immigration, remains very competitive with us and is currently the world leader in manufacturing automation technology. It is no accident or quirk that actual 22 century robots are emerging from Japan.
Illegal immigration and excessive immigration here has become an economic addiction, and that addiction is racheting down the total skill-level and skill-set of the American work force. It will, if allowed to continue, make the U.S. the new frontier in cheap labor for a future generation of manufacturing giants who will most likely be Chinese. It is creating the kind of economy with a bigger top end, a bigger bottom end and a softer, less stable, more economically uncomfortable middle. Like Mexico.
Bush is an idiot on this.
What Bush and the others who support 'guest worker program' fail to recognize is that the protesters, including the illegals, legals, organizers, and supporters are not even considering accepting a 'guest worker program'. D.C. is clearly NOT doing it's homework.
I'm no brain surgeon, but can't they read? Look at these photos....the freeking signs are in ENGLISH...they are telling us LOUD and CLEAR that they don't need citizenship, they are not here illegally. This is THEIR land, stolen from them by White racists! They aren't going to 'work' to 'earn' citizenship in a country that already belongs to THEM. Good grief D.C......
http://www.mexica-movement.org/granmarcha.htm
D.C. has neglected their duty to this country and on May1st they just may reap what they sow.