Vernon Briggs, a Cornell University labor economics professor stated:

"The toleration of illegal immigration undermines all of our labor; it rips at the social fabric. It's a race to the bottom. The one who plays by the rules is penalized... a guest worker program guarantees wages will never go up, and there is no way American citizens can compete with guest workers."

An amnesty for illegal aliens forgives their act of illegal immigration and implicitly forgives other related illegal acts such as driving and working using false documents…and not paying income taxes.

The result of an amnesty is that large numbers of foreigners who illegally gained entry into the United States are rewarded with legal status for their violating American law.

In January 2004 President Bush Proposed an earned legalization program – or guest worker program for illegal aliens. Now he offering a similar proposal and is calling it a “Temporary Worker planâ€