Would Illegal Immigrants Register For Guest Worker Visas
They might if they believed that they wouldn’t regret it later. When all the politicians talk about immigration reform, are they really planning or even wanting to do something new? It helps the economy and many businesses to have workers who earn very low wages. It would in turn, hurt the economy to lose all these workers. The House plan to build a wall on the border probably won’t pass in the Senate. But they might approve President Bush’s plan to have everyone register for guest worker visas. This plan wants them to work here for two or three years and then leave, which sounds fine until we realize people might not want to leave. This plan would make their work lives safer and better for those two or three years, but once they are making better money than they were before and have a better life than they had before, what will they do? Give it all up to go back to the problems and poverty they left? I doubt it. If everyone has to register, these people must be given a good reason to
