[Dog Gone]

I think we ought to create a formal guest worker program that allows these workers into the country for specified period of time, requires them to pay taxes, and then sends them home.

That's far preferable than causing an immediate economic depression which is what is being advocated on this thread.

[Billy_bob_bob]

If I have to pick between two bad choices, I'll take an economic depression over a second civil war, which is where this immivasion is leading to.

[Sabertooth]

I think we ought to create a formal guest worker program that allows these workers into the country for specified period of time, requires them to pay taxes, and then sends them home.

We have one now. It needs to be better utilized and and enforced, and perhaps expanded.

But as long as incentives for illegal immigration persist, the guest worker program is a joke.

That's far preferable than causing an immediate economic depression which is what is being advocated on this thread.

Hardly. The 90 day figure was arbitrary. We can make it 6 months, if we have reason to believe that's necessary. Our economy won't dry up without illegals.

You're also ignoring the benefits of eliminating the cost of the colonistas... many government budgets could be balanced if we remove the illegals or they remove themselves. Schools and prison overcrowding would be substantially mitigated.

Don't be so alarmist and inclined to Surrender.

[WRhine]

I think we ought to create a formal guest worker program that allows these workers into the country for specified period of time, requires them to pay taxes, and then sends them home.

A Guest Worker program is just another name for Amnesty. The illegals know how to game our system very well with phony documents, payoffs and anchor babies. Bush knows the game too, which is why Amnesty will be called Guest Worker to make it sound less of an affront to Americans than it is. Also, why would you think for one second that our government would suddenly get discipline in the system when it has not evidenced a shred of discipline on immigration? EVER! You don't think the media would be running countless sob stories of guest workers forced to go home after their time is up?

That's far preferable than causing an immediate economic depression which is what is being advocated on this thread.

In recessions the hallmark of insanity is to import more illegal labor into the system. Many Americans are already experiencing a depression because of illegal immigration and there are quite a few white-collar people in the same situation with the gross excesses of H1-B visas. It is time for the business sector to get a dose of their own medicine. Again, I have no sympathy for those that chose to break our laws and hire illegal labor.