I do hope you listened to the president's speech with an OPEN mind. IF you are so opposed to the guest worker program...what exactly is your solution?
"I do hope you listened to the president's speech with an OPEN mind. IF you are so opposed to the guest worker program...what exactly is your solution?"
Illegals are not guests by definition. Guests are invited.
Easy. A felon is a felon; without regard to how long they have been a felon. First, we severely fine any and all business hiring illegals. Bankruptcy is the intent.
Secondly, anyone here illegally has a choice, leave the country and obtain a Guest Worker Permit, and return legally, or have their assets and property seized and they are then focibly ejected - permanently.
Try pulling the illegal immigrant stunt in Mexico, and see what happens. Try this in China, Europe, Middle East, or any other country on the face of the planet. Why do we have different laws in dealing with Hispanics than we have for Asians, Blacks or Caucasians? If a Cuban can evade our border guards and Coast Guard, they get automatic citizenship. Are Hispanics mentally deficient, such that they are extended special circumstances out of pity? This doesn't apply to Canadians, IceLanders, GreenLanders or any other country on the planet. Why Cuba? If Cuba, why not Mexico?
This is a country of immigrants, and the Statue of Liberty was erected to commerate those who come here LEGALLY with the intent to start a new life. But, a vast number of these people have no loyalty to the USA; they only want a paycheck. There is no loyalty, no intent to start a new life; only the desire to cash in on the Gringo's.
Do you not realize that the greed of empoyers will continue to increase the quotas for any "guest worker" program, until the totals are massive?
Do you know any countries that are on the sending or receiving end of massive guest worker programs?
I do - the Phillipines (massive guest worker exporter), Saudi Arabia, UAE, Dubai (massive guest worker importers), all socially and politically dysfunctional societies - large groups of "stateless" workers who have nearly no permanent social connections in their "home" country and no political rights in the nation they spend most of their time in.
Its a time bomb inside a trojan horse.