Tancredo on Immigration
Tom Tancredo lays out the flaws in any “guest worker” program:
The president’s temporary worker proposal is also lacking in realism. He asks Americans to believe that after six years on a temporary worker visa, these workers will go home voluntarily. Who believes that? Citizens in Europe can tell you that there is nothing more permanent than a temporary worker.There are at least 500 million poor people on the globe who would love to come to the United States and help Bush “match willing workers and willing employers.” But is it in our national interest to keep our borders open to encourage them to come?
Another red herring is that the only alternative to amnesty is to have a mass deportation of 10 million people. That is nonsense. All we have to do is to begin enforcing our laws and establish genuine border security. When the jobs slowly disappear because employers prefer to raise wages and attract legal workers instead of going to jail, most illegal workers will go home voluntarily. That strategy is called “enforcement first,” and it is better than amnesty.
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