Guest Worker program, yes.
Amnesty or any other legal status, no.
Build a wall, yes.
Build a "smart" wall, no.
Why not? What does a "smart" wall mean?
There's a big problem with a "guest worker" program. The idea is that with such a program, immigrants will choose to enter legally as guest workers rather than illegally. Moreover, as guest workers, they will earn higher pay since they have more legal recourse against employers.
The fly in the ointment is that if guest workers are to be paid higher wages than the illegals are currently receiving, there is still an incentive for illegals to enter and undercut the guest workers.
A guest worker program can succeed only if the border is secured and the incentives that draw illegals (welfare, food stamps, free medical care, etc., etc.) are eliminated.
I argue the first order of business is to secure the border. The second order of business is to eliminate all "rewards" for illegal border-crossers. Only after that can we seriously consider a guest worker program.
So what do we do? Protest to Congress and the President that we want the border secured. Just as important, make known to our fellow citizens the problems being created by illegals, including the heavy burden on American taxpayers, the re-introduction of diseases we had wiped out years ago (legal immigrants are checked for illness; illegals are not), and the dangers of turning portions of the country into a third world slum. Only by mobilizing popular opinion can we hope to get the government to take positive measures to solve the problem.
This means letters to the editor, billboards, web sites, possibly even TV ads. We have to get the word out.