It's the same old song and dance: reward the lawbreakers with Amnesty and promise the very enforcment they're unwilling to provide now.
Do you object to Tom Tancredo's guest worker proposal?
I don't think Tancredo's proposal is bad, but I just don't see how it can be done. If we can't get them out now (without investing an amount of money and manpower that would be prohibitive, especially with the Iraq war going on), how would we be able to do it under his program? That is, they'd still continue to elude us because they'd certainly rather stay here as illegals than have to go back and go through the time-consuming process of trying to get back. Plus, during their absence, employers would just go find other illegals.
Basically, I think the situation has gotten to such a point that we need to think of the quickest, cheapest solution possible. And then once we've got a grip on the immediate problem (that is, once we've identified the illegals, registered them, know where they live and something about their backgrounds) we can structure a permanent guest worker program - but ONLY for Mexicans. I don't think we should bring in Islamic guest workers, as the Europeans did.
Something I would like to see tied to any program is the requirement that even the "guest workers" take English classes, have a short course in American history, etc. I haven't seen anything like this mentioned anywhere, and I think it's crucial. Of course, the left in CA and elsewhere is not going to like it, but I think it would be enormously helpful in making Mexican immigrants, even temporary ones, more committed to the US.