What are the pros of The Guest worker programs.?
78780
It allows employers access to those with a wonderful work ethic and affords the worker's peace of mind while living and working openly and legally.
1098642
Yes. Immigrants who make less than minimum wage will pay you handsomely to help them with their transition to a better life.
268616
I've never heard of them.  As someone else said if they ask for money it's a scam.  American companies can sponsor certain foreigners, BUT they can only do it for certain highly technical jobs were there are not enough americans qualified for the job.  The company will take care of this if this is the case.  Again this is only for highly technical jobs though.  If they offer work for things such as office work, manual labor, etc then they are not going to be legally able to sponsor since there is plenty of americans for those jobs.
358078
Pro: free travel, get to see lots of the world, really good pay\n\nCon: Have to keep learning, lots of differnet ways to do things in other countries, you move around a lot, need to be very self sufficent
889251
I support a guest worker program. I think it's impossible to throw all of them out. How are we going to find 12 million illegals? I'm a realist and know that we have to build a fence and send troops to guard it. But I know that is impossible to find all of the illegals here. We need to fine employers who hire illegals and reduce legal immigration with quotas. Illegal immigration is a serious problem and needs to be stopped.
324205
Key provisions of the Senate's main immigration bill would create a "gold card" program for illegal immigrants who entered the United States before Jan. 4, 2004, and create a guest worker program to bring in more foreign laborers, according to Senate Judiciary Committee staff members.\n\nThe committee is to begin debating the measure Wednesday under a three-week timetable aimed at producing a final version for the full Senate by March 27.\n\nSponsored by the committee chairman, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., the legislation is designed to strike a middle course between a bill passed by the House that calls for tougher immigration enforcement and the wishes of pro-immigration advocates who call for permanent legal status -- and eventual citizenship -- for an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants.\n\nPresident Bush, defying objections from conservatives, has called for an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws and the creation of a temporary guest worker program to ensure a steady source of labor for U.S. businesses. Under Bush's plan, qualified workers, including residents now living here illegally, could stay in jobs for up to six years, then would be required to return home.In a move to build support for Bush's guest worker amnesty plan, administration officials talked about how they would actually implement the program. Jaws dropped as the administration reps explained the centerpiece of the program, a "Gold Card" that would enable illegal aliens to enter the U.S. at will, and work at any job with no labor market or other tests needed but would deny them citizenship. "Gold Card" would be valid forever, similar to current "Green Cards" but illegal aliens holding a "Gold Card" would not be able to adjust their status through naturalization.
307587
They will get loopholes for guest workers or get visas to have the people tehre, they cannot not have those workers!
648852
It is not a case of tougher laws, but a more comprehensive system that can realistically be implemented. Migration of workers to areas where there is a demand for labor is not a NEW phenomenon. Why are we surprised when the forces of demand and supply are at work? What we need to do is ensure that we have programs that allow for those forces to come into play without causing too much strain on the system as a whole. a guest worker program allows for the govt to collect taxes owed to it and fund its projects while faciliating the demand for low skilled labor in certain industries. The flow is monitored and documented and every beneficiary in tha chain pays its dues.....that makes sense to me than mass deportation. Who pays for 12MM bus fares or plane tickets? I also don't wish to see the already strained police resources and homeland security running around catching illegals when there are some serious bad guys on the loose. Who pays for the addt'l forces needed? Doesn't make one iota of sense to me........
477876
my understanding is that it would be governed by the same labor laws that we citizens are.  So they would get at least minimum wage.  The advantage of having this done in the open, versus illegally, as it is now, is that the wage that people get paid could be regulated and enforced.\n\nso like you mention, this would prevent the type of slave labor that you talk about.\n\nI do think that the border needs to be sealed before we can even consider a guest worker program though.
873400
Benefits, hours, schedule, etc. \n\nThose are easy! :-)
483276
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR\n\n\nAppropriate Procedures. Unemployment benefit payments to illegal aliens can, largely, be prevented by more careful verification before a first payment is made. Following is the recommended general procedure for implementing a verification system. Specific procedures must be developed jointly with the INS.\n\nWhen a claimant indicates that he or she is not a U.S. citizen, the claimant should be asked to produce his or her immigration document. If the claimant does not have a document, he or she should be advised that no determination of eligibility will be made until such time as the claimant returns to the local office with the required document\n\n        Immigrant Entry and Native Exit \n\nLooking first at all workers shows that between March 2000 and March 2005 only 9 percent of the net increase in jobs for adults (18 to 64) went to natives. This is striking because natives accounted for 61 percent of the net increase in the overall size of the 18 to 64 year old population. \n\n\nAs for the less-educated, between March of 2000 and 2005 the number of adult immigrants (legal and illegal) with only a high school degree or less in the labor force increased by 1.6 million. \n\nA national unemployment rate of 5 percent is irrelevant to the current debate over illegal immigration because illegals are overwhelmingly employed in only a few occupations, done mostly by workers with only a high school degree or less. In these high-illegal occupations, native unemployment averages 10 percent — twice the national average. Moreover, the unemployment rate does not consider the growing percentage of less-educated workers who are not even looking for work and have left the labor market altogether. It would be an oversimplification to assume that each job taken by an immigrant is a job lost by a native. What is clear is that the last five years have seen a record level of immigration. At the same time, the unemployment rate of less-educated natives has remained high and the share that have left the labor force altogether has grown significantly. Wage growth has also generally been weak. Thus it is very hard to see any evidence of a labor shortage that could justify allowing illegal aliens to stay or to admit more as guestworkers. Rather, the available evidence suggests that immigration may be adversely impacting less-educated natives. The statistical findings of this study are consistent with other research that has looked at the pattern of immigrant job gains and native loses in recent years\nhttp://www.cis.org/articles/2006/back206.html\n\n\n\nThe U.S. unemployment rate today is at the highest level in 20 years. \nMillions of hard-working Americans who are desperate for jobs can't find them, and both the short term and long term prospects do not bode well for many American workers.\n\nThe economic problems we face would be bad enough if all we had to contend with were a recovering economy, the continued threat of terrorism, and increased competition from foreign companies. \n\nBut a Congress that should be looking for ways to help unemployed Americans is busy opening the floodgates to millions of new immigrants who take jobs away from Americans - and also helping companies take the remaining jobs offshore.\n\nIt almost appears that our government is committed to making sure everybody in the world has a job - except Americans.\n\nHistorically, the U.S. admitted around 300,000 legal immigrants per year, but Congress changed our immigration policies back around 1965 and opened the floodgates. We now allow more than a MILLION legal immigrants into the country each year. A small number of these are refugees; some have special skills not easily found here. But an increasingly large percentage of those pouring through our borders are undereducated, unskilled workers who threaten the income of blue-collar workers, the backbone of America. Millions more come here each year ILLEGALLY, and the government does nothin
866984
They get a housing allowance and free healthcare. \nNice work if you can get it.
384706
1- allowed the company I worked for to send our jobs to Brazil and Germany, then let them hire from temporary services for other jobs we could have done.\n\n2- allows illegal immigrants to work here for low wages then get social services that the American Citizens pay for.\nWith their wages plus the cost of the free services they get they actually end up with better care than we (USA citizens) can afford.\n\n3- Illegal immigrants come across our southern border by the hundreds daily, costing us BILLIONS anually. Our government fails us by not placing the National Guard at that border.\n\n4 - No matter how many times illegal immigrants are reported, the INS arrests very few. They stand back, watch and do NOTHING!!\n\n5- By not allowing Americans who formerly made a decent wage and had insurance, to qualify for assistance until they can get back on their feet.\n\n6-By taking 'recesses' when important issues are on the table. They should have come up with something, at least more stringent border control, before going on two weeks recess.
630249
The shape of the guest worker program would need to be worked out in negotiation of whatever the Senate passes to combine it with what the House passed.\n\nThe President's plan would give a 'path to citizenship' for qualified illegal immigrants. (Terrorists need not apply). It is something like apply, work for 6 years (unknown if that starts now or at a historical date) and learn English.\n\nOpponents are saying that it is essentially amnesty, since there is no real punishment, and there is citizenship opportunity.  The President calls it 'earned citizenship'.  Maybe he figures having to learn English is punishment enough. Clearly the illegal immigrants will think so!
434361
Yes, I think workers visas are a good idea.  We need to let them in to work and have them pay taxes.  Those of us who are not from the baby boomer generation are going to need more tax payers to support us in our old age!
1023468
I served in the DR; just got back a little over a year ago.  I looked at Peace Corps in part as an alternative to grad school (I'm not much of a student, honestly), but it's great preparation for both further schooling and a career.  PC can use your language skills, and can train you for one of their programs depending on where you're sent.  The PC experience gave me so much more than what I gave up to do it.  You'll learn things and meet people on the microcosmic scale...intimately changing each other's lives.  PC is not a big development program that goes in and plops down a school, aqueduct, or latrines without the participation of the people who will use them, and then leaves the project to decay from neglect.  Because volunteers partner with host country nationals, working on what *they* need and want, the project has a much better chance of sustainability.  If you can handle unstructured, figure-it-out-yourself work, and not a few frustrating or boring moments, go for it....because all the friendships and local successes will be more than worth it.
502521
Of course it is.  President Bush was very clear about giving guest workers a clearly defined path towards citizenship.  They must abide by certain rules, pay taxes, learn English... nothing unreasonable.