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REP PENCE: The Four-Step Solution: No Amnesty Immigration Reform

I see the solution as a four-step process:

1. Secure our border.

2. Make the decision, once and for all, to deny amnesty to people whose first act in the United States was a violation of the law.

3. Put in place a guest worker program, without amnesty, that will efficiently provide American employers with willing guest workers who come to America legally.

4. Enforce tough employer sanctions that ensure a full partnership between American business and the American government in the enforcement of our laws on immigration and guest workers.

Rep. Tom Tancredo’s Four-Point Plan for Immigration Control

1. Secure our Nation’s Borders
2. Establish a Genuine Guest Worker Program
3. Improve “Interior Enforcement” of Immigration Laws
4. Remove Incentives for Illegal Immigration

Although more superior than the Pence plan, Tom Tancredo even acknowledged in 2003 that any immigration reform bill would have to include a guest-worker provision to seek passage.

Now, Rep Tancredo is opposed to any guest-worker plan whatsoever.

It would be in Tancredo's best interest to work with Pence (Since Pence is now the go-to guy on immigration instead of him) instead of against him.

I am a huge supporter of Tancredo but on this very issue I disagree with him. Tancredo is only marginalizing himself instead of working with Pence and others in his caucus.

PENCE PLAN: U.S. employers must attempt to hire American workers

Before going to a placement agency with a job, U.S. employers must try to hire American workers. They will have to attest their efforts to the agency. Believe me, this is a tough requirement that will protect the American worker because people will be watching and checking-out employers.

PENCE PLAN: Limited number of guest worker visas

The number of guest workers will be limited. After the program is up and running, there will be a period of three years when the market and the needs of U.S. employers will set the limit on the number of guest workers. Not letting the market and the needs of employers govern the number of guest workers initially will prevent illegal aliens from being willing to self-deport. After three years of the program, a reasonable limit on the number of W Visas will be determined by the Department of Labor based on employment statistics, employer needs and other research. After the three-year window has closed, this limit will be strictly enforced.