[jackbenimble]

This article is interesting because it gives some insight into how a Guest worker Visa Program might work when the guest worker visas started to expire. One of the major criticism of a temporary worker program is that a lot of people believe that the guests would never leave and that the government will lack the will to enforce its own laws. In this instance we are talking about sending 300,000 people home and it looks pretty clear that nobody is going to leave willingly. Can you imagine having this problem with 11 million people?

[willyd]

""It would be unfair to leave them out in the cold now," said Saul Solarzano, head of the center's Washington office. "

I didn't know it was so cold in El Salvador...

[DTogo]

Can you imagine having this problem with 11 million people?

Smart Conservatives know that Bush's Shamnesty program is a smokescreen for cheap labor junky employers. And a BOHICA for the American worker.

[wmfights]

"In this instance we are talking about sending 300,000 people home and it looks pretty clear that nobody is going to leave willingly. Can you imagine having this problem with 11 million people?"
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I don't believe the political will exists to send them home. That being the case, to get the wall built and stem the illegal tide we will have to figure out how to legalize the status of the 11 million who are here and won't be leaving.