Thread: We Already Have a Guest Worker Program!

Below is the excerpts from the 1986 Amnesty bill, it already contains provisions for guest workers. So why is the Prez screaming we need a guest worker program?

126. Immigration Reform and Control Act of November 6, 1986 (IRCA) (100 Statutes-at-Large 3359)
Comprehensive immigration legislation:

a. Authorized legalization (i.e., temporary and then permanent resident status) for aliens who had resided in the United States in an unlawful status since January 1, 1982 (entering illegally or as temporary visitors with authorized stay expiring before that date or with the Government’s knowledge of their unlawful status before that date) and are not excludable.

b. Created sanctions prohibiting employers from knowingly hiring, recruiting, or referring for a fee aliens not authorized to work in the United States.

c. Increased enforcement at U.S. borders.

d. Created a new classification of seasonal agricultural worker and provisions for the legalization of certain such workers.

e. Extended the registry date (i.e., the date from which an alien has resided illegally and continuously in the United States and thus qualifies for adjustment to permanent resident status) from June 30, 1948 to January 1, 1972.

f. Authorized adjustment to permanent resident status for Cubans and Haitians who entered the United States without inspection and had continuously resided in country since January 1, 1982.

g. Increased the numerical limitation for immigrants admitted under the preference system for dependent areas from 600 to 5,000 beginning in fiscal year 1988.

h. Created a new special immigrant category for certain retired employees of international organizations and their families and a new nonimmigrant status for parents and children of such immigrants.

i. Created a nonimmigrant Visa Waiver Pilot program allowing certain aliens to visit the United States without applying for a nonimmigrant visa.

j. Allocated 5,000 nonpreference visas in each of fiscal years 1987 and 1988 for aliens born in countries from which immigration was adversely affected by the 1965 act.


http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/shared...isHist/561.htm

That's what I thought too and I get ticked when they talk like it's something new!! It's there already BUT once again....there's a LEGAL way to do it!!!! Just like there already is a PATH to citizenship. You are just supposed to do it LEGALLY. They just seem to have a real problem with LEGAL.

crazybird, we need to include what you said in our emails and letters and phone calls to the congressmen and senators, remind them we already have a plan, they need to just follow it!

PBS, interestingly, had on 2 shows pertaining to the above last night.

HOW THESE COMPANIES WERE MISTREATING THESE VISA HOLDERS.
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LAWSUITS

Hmmm, are they trying to send a message to the ILLEGALS?

That's why we keep screaming NO NEW LAWS!

Dixie