I found this on a bloggers site.


Reene wrote:
I think immigration is the one and only thing I agree with Bush about - do a guest worker thing to make it easier for people to work here legally and create a path to citizenship for the ones that are already here.

And after that, yeah, crack down on the businesses - if our agriculture and construction industries can't exist without illegal workers, either the law or the industry has got to change, and it won't without pain being applied.


I wrote to Reene:

Reene,
A Guest Worker Program? Puh-lease!
Who's going to manage it? The U.S. Government? The same government who right now doesn't have any idea that there are 10 to 20 million illegals currently in this country?
Yeah, that's a great idea..........Reene.
Do you really think that a "guest worker" is just going to get up and leave the country when his "guest worker pass" expires?
You must be young. Only the young and inexperienced in these matters would believe such a thing.

Reene, if you're so concerned about keeping all the illegals here and providing jobs for them, how about if we give one of them your job?
Oh, wait, that's a different story, right? You meant just menial jobs, right?
Well, guess what? There are many, many Americans that would just love to jump on one of those construction or landscaping jobs, IF THEY JUST PAID A LIVING WAGE!
The wages in these industries used to be right up there with some white collar jobs just ten to twenty years ago. Did you know that? Do you care?
Low wages in these industries are the DIRECT RESULT of illegal immigration.
Would you really rather see an illegal immigrant from Mexico get a good paying construction job over a black Vietnam Veteran who fought for your country?
Think about it, Reene. That's who you are hurting with your "Guest Worker" (really amnesty) way of thinking. Not everyone in America has a college degree, Reene.

Wake up! Illegals take American jobs away from Americans! Illegal means illegal! No Amnesty for illegals!

Rice