Tancredo's plan would halt efforts to create a guest worker program that is really an amnesty for the foreseeable future. Also, implementation of Tancredo's guest worker program is dependent on better enforcement on the border and in the interior, including against employers.
Even in the worse possible case, a guest worker program without better enforcement, we're better off than we are now because the wind will be out of the sails of the amnesty lobby.
Why would any employer hire an alien with a guest worker visa and pay the additional costs, when that same employer can continue to hire the illegal aliens for cheaper.
Some wouldn't, but some would. More would if the requirement to verify workers' right to employment was made mandatory.
There is no downside. Illegal aliens will be much less sympathetic if there's a legal avenue for imported labor. Tancredo's BE REAL Act is a good first step toward steering our immigration policies in a more positive direction.
If those who are opposed to illegal aliens fail to support Tancredo in this, what incentive do other politicians have to oppose amnesty?
There currently are many legal avenues for imported labor. Any guest worker program will just duplicate those programs already in place.
A guest worker program won't stop the flow of illegals across the border and it won't add any interior enforcement.
Do you know why we have no interior employer sanctions?
It's not because Washington does not want it; it's because of lawyers and judges. The INS gave up fighting lawyers and judges. Even if Congress enacted new laws, the lawyers and judges would shot down any attempt to enforce those laws.
Employers know we can't enforce those laws, so there is zero incentive to hire a more expensive legal worker over an easily disposable and easily replaceable illegal worker.
All of these guest worker plans are doomed to fail and cause more problems.