[Zipporah]

There is something that I first hadn't considered with the Bush proposal, the guest worker program does not just include Mexicans it includes any foreign worker. This will be exploited by large firms offering the replacement of American workers -legally.. not having to deal with the H-1 visa program. There is no provision in Bush's proposal to prevent it.

[sarcasm]

There is something that I first hadn't considered with the Bush proposal, the guest worker program does not just include Mexicans it includes any foreign worker.

Sure does.

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

"This will be exploited by large firms offering the replacement of American workers -legally.. not having to deal with the H-1 visa program. There is no provision in Bush's proposal to prevent it."

Yikes! You have uncovered the real agenda! The new Elite Corporatism raises its snake head once again. It has been masquerading as 'free trade' and now it is masquerading as the new documented worker program.

And last Labor Day, the year hundreds of thousands of middle-class high-tech types became unemployed (but not until they trained all of their foreign replacements), Bush told America that they needed to become better trained.

A little more salt for that wound?

[blueriver]

There is something that I first hadn't considered with the Bush proposal, the guest worker program does not just include Mexicans it includes any foreign worker. This will be exploited by large firms offering the replacement of American workers -legally.. not having to deal with the H-1 visa program. There is no provision in Bush's proposal to prevent it.

Exactly. In fact the guest worker program will more likely be used to fill white collar jobs because the employers of those jobs are not paying sub minim wage. Why would an employer of an illegal want to pay the workers minimum wage under a guest worker program? If you think about it long enough you will realize this guest worker program has very little to do with illegal immigration rather it is a replacement for the H-1B visa program. Only no one is talking about it that way. No one realizes that this will have a major impact on every job in the US.