Please tell me, who will be responsible for the healthcare of the "guest workers"? Since they will be taking all of the low wage jobs americans refuse to do. If the employer doesn't offer a health plan, how will they afford the 300-600.00 per month for private health insurance? Hospitals will not turn away people who are sick, pregnant etc. what about immunizations etc., for the children of these guest workers? Will the children of guest workers who will be making so little money still get free breakfast and lunch at school? Will they get a refund at the end of their 5 years for the SS they paid while working here? Since they will legally be filing taxes, do they qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit? How does the Pence plan change the fact that they will still have to live 5 families to a single residence to be able to afford housing, thus impacting the neighborhoods of citizens? Does the Pence plan address anchor babies? Five years, 5 kids. How can these companies verify so much information in such a short period of time, 2 weeks? If the technology is there why not use it here and enforce the laws already on the books? If a construction company needs a roofer, does the roofer get to bring his entire family here as well, including parents and inlaws if he can prove he is their sole provider? How will the Pence plan improve wages? If we import all of these unskilled laborers for so little money how will they survive our cost of living? To me, it seems everything remains the status quo only some private company will be taking the place of the coyotes.
The truth is, Pence's plan is indistinguishable from Bush's shamnesty plan in all important respects. In both plans illegal aliens get a free trip around the bases to score a home run. The only difference is, Pence would require them to go back and touch first base.
Pence says existing laws targeting illegals for deportation and employers for sanctions simply don't work. They never have and never will. What Pence proposes is getting illegals freely and legally into the US for six years. After six years they supposedly have to apply for citizenship if they want to stay. And if they don't apply for citizenship? "Why, then they'll be here illegally," says Pence. And if they refuse to leave or simply go underground and continue to work? "We'll round them up and deport them, and impose sanctions on the employers," says Pence. Like we do now under existing laws that Pence says don't work and never will? "Stop asking embarrassing questions," says Pence.