But if you didn't have this, you could a permanent underclass of non-citizen illegals. With the current system, at least the second or third generation are citizens.
Actually, if you didn't have this you would not have had nearly so many jump the border to have their babies. I remember back in the 80s, living in W. TX. I had a friend who was a labor and delivery nurse at our local hospital (which had a super L & D dept). She told me back THEN that I would be surprised how many Mexican woman showed up at the hospital straight from Mexico to have their American babies. She indicated that most of them then returned home. But, they had their American baby so they could come back later. This was my very first exposure to the problem.
susie
Your alleged underclass of non-citizen illegals would be substantially less than the (estimated) 11 million illegals if the immigration laws were properly and totally enforced.
Yes there would be a permanent underclass. But it can be limited because the law was properly enforced until the early 1980's and the illegal population did not swell until after some government officials started selecting which laws they wanted to enforce.
We do not need fradulent citizens. Citizenship is not a birthright. Citizenship is not a guaranteed right according to the checks and balances that constitute the law. Enforce the law and these questions are moot.
In any case, you can get legal citizens IF they naturalize.
The most important part of a guest worker program is the application must be done in person, and must be done at a US embassy or consulate located outside the United States.
That gives the illegals incentive to GO HOME.
Spoken like a true, blue socialist of the Peoples Republic of Mass.