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When will all the polititians learn. For all the good I have emailed my Senators, Reps and President Bush. Anyone have any ideas on what else to try.

Before everyone starts screaming "amnesty!", let's get a look at the proposal. What I read a few days ago was in the form of a guest worker program. I know that is just as bad to many of you, but let's look at this:

1.)It would reduce or eliminate a lot of the illegal immigration. Workers that had jobs lined up could come in legally for a specific period of time, then go home when the jobs were done, instead of staying here on welfare.

2.) It would allow us to monitor and screen the people who do come into the country better than we do now.

3.) A lot of the illegals who now work under the table would pay US taxes.

4.) It would help prevent voter fraud, since we would be better able to determine who was here on a work visa. As a matter of fact, some of the Democrats don't like the proposal, saying that Bush wants these people to be workers, not voters" (well, duh!). It would also help us to send these people home when their jobs ended.

The proposal I have seen is not perfect by any means. I would like to see the law changed so that a if a worker has a baby while here on a visa, that child does not automatically become a US citizen. But I don't see this as a surrender to political correctness. There have been Mexicans coming across the border to work for longer than any of us have been alive. If they can come in legally, work the season in the fields, pay taxes, then go home when the season is over, knowing they can come back the next year to work, they are much less likely to move their whole families here to be a burden on our welfare system.

Any guest worker plan needs accountability from the employer side also. Remember, it's not just the "illegal" that breaking the law but the employer also. I think that any "guest worker" plan (referred to GW-1) needs to address the cost associated with the GW-1 plan...and I do mean all cost. These cost should include background check fees, processing fees, monitoring fees, medical costs, cost associated with "legal" issues, and prison cost if necessary. There is a workable way to control this issue. Lets have some input.

Exactamundo. The key is registering guest workers. Once they are regularized, they can return home instead of establishing permanent residences in this country.

If they are fingerprinted and issued some form of SS ID, then employers can collect/pay employment taxes. This means that guest workers can then collect benefits at some later point in their home country.

The real KEY is regularization: once there is some official program, guys like Gov Arnold can push through laws that allow local agencies to sic the cops on non-conforming parties.

The libs will be without a platform to cry 'racism' because the entire issue will have been converted to an administrative process.