We have about 8 to 10 programs similar to Guest Worker programs and have had for many years. Plus we make citizens out of 2 millions immigrants each year. I don’t want illegal aliens in my country - honest workers or not. They are not honest - they broke into the USA - they broke the law and are breaking the law by staying here... Illegals are stealing SSN’s everyday.
A lot of what you say is 100% right on.
Not remembering the details on the several different “guest worker” programs, but some had merit although needed better implemtation. Amnesty to instant US citizenship is NOT the correct way.
Regardless of previous failed programs, we must find a better way to enable low skilled workers to temporarily immigrate to do these essential jobs. Most Citizens don’t want to do these jobs, and our ex-slave culture sure doesn’t because they think they should get a free ride into perpetuity to compensate for slavery. So who is to do these jobs?
One way is similar to what some other countries do, require a US Citizen to sponsor the immigrant and to prove their financial ability to support said immigrant for a prescribed period for the work and then return to Mexico. It ought to be possible for an employer, like a fruit picking company or a construction company, to sponsor enough to do whatever work for some period of time and after say one year the worker must return home and re=enter only through the same or similar company for another period.
Guess worker program should not include their families. We must eliminate anchor baby program. The biggest problem I see with how it now works is that for some reason we (as our government) have offered these workers rights to economic subsidies like Food Stamps, ADC, HUD housing, free medical and damn if lots of them didn’t accept the generous offers.
It is our fault this has gotten out of hand, not the poor SOB looking to scratch out a subsistance.