Posted on 04/06/2007 7:17:22 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Time to call it a night!
Sure we need a guest worker program, we kit them up and send them to Iraq for a year to assist our troops.
night :)
That is like saying that, if you need a cleaning lady to clean your bachelor house once a week, you should marry her and adopt her kids or do without her cleaning services.
Seal the border. Bring in the people you need, but bring them in as full immigrants, here to stay. If you don't want to do that, then try raising your wages and you'll get all the workers you need.
Why would you want to bring legions of fruit pickers into the U.S. as full citizens or pay a wage high enough to have U.S. citizens do stoop farm labor and have fruits and vegetables priced at the level of a New York strip steak?
Right now, the U.S. is flooded with illegals because the produce needs picking, Americans won't pick it and the only way a Mexican can get here to pick it is to sneak across the desert. Once here, they don't want to risk their life in the desert again.
Once here, the multimillion dollar agribusiness owner does not want his labor force deported and his produce left to rot on the vine so he greases the palm of Congresscritters to ignore the issue of illegal aliens all together.
What, exactly, is so terrible about contracting foreign labor to do the dirty little jobs that are simply not worth $25 per hour and then having them return home with dollars to spend in their home towns at the end of each contract period?
While stationed at U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo, we had hundreds of Jamaican guest workers doing just that.
Then you need to define what a guest worker can and cannot do.
Right now, agribusiness money is bribing Congress to ignore the entire issue of illegal aliens all together because agribusiness has no way of contracting Mexican guest workers to pick their crops in the same manner that the U.S. Navy contracted Jamaican guest workers to mow lawns, clean toilets and staff chow halls at Guantanamo so that our sailors and Marines could concentrate on their military duties.
You are far too generous with your use of the word “idea.”
The House Borderbot Caucus replaces Tancredo with Bilbray and Bilbray starts softening by saying he would accept a guest worker program.
They should have done this last year.
Rep. Tancredo proposd a guest worker program in legislation that he introduced last session. The Senate version of his bill was introduced by Sen. Inhofe.
Unlike you, Rep. Bilbray and Rep. Tancredo do not support rewarding millions of illegal aliens with legal status and a path to citizenship. Any guest worker legislation that Rep. Bilbray supports will not contain amnesty provisions that reward illegal aliens that have deliberately violated federal immigration laws with legal status and a path to citizenship, the kind of provisions that you support.
Many members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus would have supported legislation that contained a guest worker provision last session. However, they would not support last session and will not support this session a guest worker program that gives amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.
Unlike you, Rep. Bilbray and Rep. Tancredo support 700 miles of fencing along the Mexican border.
Rep. Tancredo properly resigned his position as chairman during a session in which he is running for president. He was not somehow removed from the position of chairman against his will. He campaigned for Rep. Bilbray in his special election last year and wanted Rep. Bilbray to be his replacement as chairman.
Rep. Tancredo proposd a guest worker program in legislation that he introduced last session. The Senate version of his bill was introduced by Sen. Inhofe.
Unlike you, Rep. Bilbray and Rep. Tancredo do not support rewarding millions of illegal aliens with legal status and a path to citizenship. Any guest worker legislation that Rep. Bilbray supports will not contain amnesty provisions that reward illegal aliens that have deliberately violated federal immigration laws with legal status and a path to citizenship, the kind of provisions that you support.
Many members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus would have supported legislation that contained a guest worker provision last session. However, they would not support last session and will not support this session a guest worker program that gives amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.
Unlike you, Rep. Bilbray and Rep. Tancredo support 700 miles of fencing along the Mexican border.
Rep. Tancredo properly resigned his position as chairman during a session in which he is running for president. He was not somehow removed from the position of chairman against his will. He campaigned for Rep. Bilbray in his special election last year and wanted Rep. Bilbray to be his replacement as chairman.
Policymakers were far too generous with the “upsides” of NAFTA. I can also recall an editorial pimping WTO/GATT that German beer would be cheaper.
Isn’t it? Mine is. And if it is not, that’s due more to inflation than anything else.
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