It also allows the illegals that are here currently to stay for five years before they even attempt to make things right as far as getting guestworker status. It doesn't really give them legal status of any sort during that period but it suspends law enforcement efforts against them during that period which amounts to the same thing. There is hardly any difference between the five years in Kyle/Cornyn and the six years in the Bush plan. It really is just an effort to kick the can down the road for several years while giving the illusion that something has been done when in fact nothing has been done.
And Cornyn/Kyl in the meantime allows in an UNLIMITED number of guests every year and throws EVERY American job open to competition and downwards wage pressure. We are not just talking about low-end unskilled jobs. There are lots of well educated people in India and Asia who would love to come displace an American at half the hourly wage.
And along with everybody else, you have failed to explain how we will make the guests leave when their visas expire. Until you explain how that will happen, you are not talking about guests but rather permanent immigrants.
Excellent point. I'll have to take some time to read the proposal again.