[longtermmemmory]

Guest worker program visas will be BIlateral treaties with individual nations.

Each employer who hires a guest worker will be given a "must terminate" date. As long as each visa is tied to a specific employer then the person will be tracked.

Overstayes will be ineligible for future work visas.

[afnamvet]

Each employer who hires a guest worker will be given a "must terminate" date. As long as each visa is tied to a specific employer then the person will be tracked.

Overstayes will be ineligible for future work visas.

Who tracks the "guest worker" after the job ends? Who tracks and makes certain that the visa overstays leaves the country? My point is where is the guarantee that these workers actually leave our country.

[ARCADIA]

As long as each visa is tied to a specific employer then the person will be tracked.

What is this a master-slave relationship? So the guest worker becomes the effective chattel of his employer; unable to resign, and fully dependent upon that employer for all social services. It is either that, or program where the guest worker resigns, no one can account for them, and they continue to be heavily subsidized by the US tax payer. In the latter case, I for one have no interest in contributing to help fund someone else's landscaping; and, of the former, I don't see how any self-sustaining program can be anything but repugnant to American values. We ended slavery once after much pain and anguish, and there is no reason to bring it back under a different guise.