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America needs a real guest-worker program
A workable plan to supply businesses with labor and immigrants with jobs.

By Rick Diamond
guest Opinion
Originally posted on November 28, 2005


Estimates of illegal immigrants employed in Lee County vary, but indications are that the number easily exceeds 10,000. Current projections list 400,000 undocumented workers in Florida and at least 21Ú2 percent of that total reside locally.

If these figures seem high look at some of the statistics â€â€