What is wrong is that we already have in the neighborhood of 20 million illegals, and a guest worker program would encourage a greater flood. The program will not work in the ideal way that you experienced with the Jamaicans at Guantanamo.
How do you feel about the preference being given to immigrants from Mexico and Central American countries in preference to other countries of origin?
We American citizens do not desire to be bigots, Polybius. We had enough of that in the past. But, there is a tremendous arrogance now among the latest wave of Latinos, who have bypassed all our laws and procedures for legal entry. They have created their own "guest worker" program and they like it!
But, as we have seen, that is not enough and they plan to dominate our culture, i.e., they demonstrate bigotry towards the people of the host nation. This poses a situation that we must resist.
See my Post 47.
My analysis of the situation is that we are chasing 20 million flies around our back yard and trying to build fences high enough to keep the flies out instead of simply closing the lids of our garbage cans.
Flies won't hang around a closed garbage can and illegal aliens won't hang around a country that stops throwing illegal jobs and legal welfare benefits at them.
This is the problem: balance. Dare I say it? We need: "multiculturalism." By literally flooding the country with Latinos, we are moving into an era un which theirs will be the dominant culture of the US. We are not assimilating them. They are assimilating us!
Also, there is a question of numbers. Since Ted's Immigration "Reform" of 1965, we have picked up over 35 Million mostly Latino immigrants in addition to what I claim are about 20 million illegals. (My numbers are just as good as John McCain's). For example, California is already OVER 50% Latino. Texas? Florida? With just expected growth of those already here, the US will be at least half-Latino by 2100.
There is not a damn thing wrong with most Latinos. Good people. There is a lot wrong with making the US part of Latin America by the numbers. Of course there is confusion between these two concepts, and many nasty racist elements appear during this debate.
But if the crimes of illegal entry into the United States, and illegal residence here can be forgiven, so can the social crime of bigotry among those who are victims of those criminals. As La Enchiladita points out, bigotry is not exactly unknown among our unwelcome and sometimes very badly behaved invasive "guests."