“Not too different than GOPe.”
What he is advocating is a return to the way it used to be; seasonal worker permits and then they return home.
Exactly! What we do need to reform is the slow and laborious process that farmers, for example, need to go through to obtain approval for temporary workers, which often results in a temporary visa after the farmer no longer has a need for the sesonal worker. That, and get rid of anchor babies and scale back family-based visas to 1 degree of affinity (parent-child) provided they will not become a burden on society.