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Since you asked, I am in favor of instituting a bracero-type program again to bring in those who choose to work in North America. Once the work is completed the guest workers are sent home.

This won't work unless the anchor baby syndrome nightmare (14th amendment) is corrected, and a foolproof means is developed to locate these people at any time. We all know thay aren't going to leave unless they are caught and deported to begin with. There's no need to import these bums anyhow... just raise wages to what they should be in 2003 and Americans will do the work.

Once the work is completed the guest workers are sent home.

You hope they'll go home?

And you think that a few businesses are worth establishing a bureaucracy for sub living wage temporary workers? Workers who will get pregnant. Workers who will slip through the cracks. Workers who will grow to be bitter critics of an American economic system that underpays them and treats them like second-class citizens?

Have you ever thought about the fear the Germans have today of their Kurdish and Turkish populations? Populations that were brought in for the sole purpose of feeding their unquenchable labor appetite? Where are the plentiful jobs today? Where are the businesses that could sustain all of that labor and the labor requirements of the German people?

I am not against immigration, but I think we need to start setting some standards. I don't think we need "cheap labor." That's a special interest that is just as damaging as the Democratic immigrant voter harvesting that we've all criticized so harshly.

Get real. Latinos are just like the rest of us who immigrated to this country, some longer ago than others. But we don't need to flood the country as we've been doing with people who don't care about the American dream and only want to build a beach head in this country for sending cash back to Latin America or establish a human wave of Spanish-speakers for the purposes of reclaiming California for Mexico. Have you ever talked to an immigrant janitor or other unskilled worker who can barely speak English? Some will tell you in California they don't have to speak anything but Spanish. These are not good prospective American immigrants. They're here for the quick cash and that's it.

Immigrants who come here should be able to offer us something more than unskilled labor and a promise to send all their cash south of the border.

The Bracero Program:

What would you propose ...

Since you asked, I am in favor of instituting a bracero-type program again to bring in those who choose to work in North America. Once the work is completed the guest workers are sent home.

There is no nation on the face of the earth named "North America." North America is a continent. In fact, you couldn't "bring in" Mexicans to North America; Mexico is already in North America. Your multicultural slip, in referring to "North America," rather than America, betrays your contempt for American sovereignty.

Since you asked, I am in favor of instituting a bracero-type program again to bring in those who choose to work in North America. Once the work is completed the guest workers are sent home.

The problem I see with this proposal is that it simply shifts some of the people, those who would have entered the United States illegally, into a legal guest worker program. But those people who want to come to the United States, and who aren't accepted into the guest worker program, will enter the United States illegally, just as they are doing now.