Bullshit. Deport the illegal scum, fine anyone who hires them, and they'll damn well leave. Keep doing that long enough, and they'll eventually quit trying.
Actually, I've got no problem with a REAL "guest worker" program, as long as 1) it offers no path to citizenship or PERMANENT residency, 2) it applies to no illegal currently residing in the USA, and 3) no children born to any "guest worker" is eligible for citizenship. What is it about ILLEGAL that you folks refuse to comprehend?
Lots of things are illegal. Not all of them should be. When it comes down to it, their crime is, as GG Liddy would say, Malum prohibitum, not malum in se. That means we, the people,, should change what is prohibited to something that actually works, that is, serves our purposes, which the current system does not. People aren't obeying the law, and one should not pass a malum prohibitum law that people are not going to obey. They tried that with Prohibition, and even a Constitutional amendment couldn't make people obey that "law".
I'm with you on the guest worker program, but the provision that their children born in the US not be citizens probably would require a constitutional amendment. I'd prefer that the laws be changed to not allow US born children to become "anchors" for the guest workers. That is the parents should have to return home at the same as they would sans child. The child can stay, or go home an return later as a citizen, but the parents should get no leverage from the child The laws and regulations that do that today, can and should be changed. .