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To: Fishing-guy
"Another reason this country needs a guest worker program. What a terrible waste of resources for everyone involved."

LMAO! You do know a LEGAL guest worker program already exists, right? It's called a H2-A visa issued by the DOL. It's the one that doesn't involve stealing others' identity nor cheating and lying. It might not be as quick and 100% satisfactory to the millions eager to enter America, the land of the freebies, but it exists.

80 posted on 08/27/2008 5:40:55 AM PDT by azhenfud (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: azhenfud
“LMAO! You do know a LEGAL guest worker program already exists, right? It's called a H2-A visa issued by the DOL.”

I think he's talking about a guest worker program to bring people in to work long term jobs. The H2-A visa is for seasonal agricultural work, peach pickers and whatnot who come for a few months and then have to go home. The employer will end up paying something like $1,500 each to get those visas before it's all said and done and that can really add up when they need a lot of people for the harvest. Farmers use a lot of these though because they really can't get anyone else to come work hard for just a few months or a few weeks. The H2-B is for non agricultural workers but it is still for seasonal temporary employment. There aren't really long term work visas for low wage unskilled labor types though. Immigrants with legitimate papers who are working those types of jobs usually got those papers through some sort of family based immigration petitions, or maybe they are Salvadorians on Temporary Protected Status or are in some other special program like that. Most aliens with permission to work will have gotten that by marrying a citizen, having a citizen father or mother or or adult child petition for them, and so on. There is no guest worker program per se for regular people working regular low wage type jobs on a long term basis. That just doesn't exist.

86 posted on 08/27/2008 8:53:34 AM PDT by TKDietz
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