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It's not that straight-forward. I think instead we should end all government handouts for immigrants ---legal or illegal, deport all those trying to access government services and trying to obtain free medical care. There are a handful of illegals who aren't using services, who pay their own way and would be difficult to find and deport without trampling over everyones' rights. Maybe we should have some kind of temporary guest worker program for those who are here only to work ---if we need them. Maybe like the visas we give to foreign students that lets them in legally for set periods of time and they need to actually report to class.

"Maybe we should have some kind of temporary guest worker program for those who are here only to work --- if we need them. Maybe like the visas we give to foreign students that lets them in legally for set periods of time, and they need to actually report to class."

This is the program which we are supposed to have now, and it is seriously abused. It has been estimated that most of the illegal aliens in our country today entered under a legal temporary visa or permit, and just stayed on and on after it expired.

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Maybe we should have some kind of temporary guest worker program for those who are here only to work ---if we need them.

How are we going to track guest workers when we currently do not have the means to track people entering the country on legal visas?

How are we going to get the guest workers to leave the country when we "no longer need them" or their guest worker visa has expired, when we currently can't even get the illegals out of the country or those overstaying their visas? The whiners who are putting water bottles & beacons out in the deserts now, are going to be crying when we tell guest workers they have to go home.

If a guest worker has a baby in the US, is the child automatically a citizen?

If the guest workers come in and receive legal wages, benefits and have more legal recourse against employers, while employers have to start paying taxes, the guest workers' wages will be comparable to the wages for US citizens. Won’t this eliminate the “cheap labor” advantage illegals have over American workers? Why hire some uneducated, guest worker that doesn’t speak English at relatively the same cost as an American worker?