The problem is a guest worker program won't work with out a total overhaul of the entire immigration system, which the President nor Congress will do.
Under the current proposal the President has put to Congress, all the illegals in the US get worker visas.
OK, fine. Now; each and every one of those workers has to be employed under our current laws. That means employers will have to pay minimum wage and all the taxes, ect that goes along with hiring someone legally.
Since there will be no strict enforcement of employer sanctions and the border is not sealed, employers will continue to hire the hundred of thousand illegal aliens that continue to stream across the border.
So, not only have you not fixed the problem, you’ve made it worst.
The ONLY way to fix the immigration system is to SEAL the borders, enforce employer sanctions and then create a viable worker program. We also need Mexico to grow it’s middle class fast and police it’s border.
Speaking of Mexico, do you know what the Mexicans do when they find illegal Guatemalans sneaking across their southern border? They shot them. Yes, that’s a fact.
The problem is that most of the critics of the measure refuse to admit the need for a guest worker program as part of the package. Quite frankly I think there are tinges of protectionism and ethnocentrism underlying almost all of the criticism, which seldom addresses real security issues.
By all means, we should lobby our senators and congressmen to attach beefed up enforcement and border security to the guest worker measure. But that's very different form demanding it be killed.
EXCELLENT!!!!
Being I followed this issue and got blasted for 2 years by Bushbots, we make sure this issue is covered being in goes hand in hand with the WOT and Bush's policy still sucks on this, wanting to document thousands!