11/10/2004 05:01:36 PM|||Toni|||So, my next step was to look at the Guest Worker theory.
Testimony prepared for the U.S. House of RepresentativesCommittee on the JudiciarySubcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and ClaimsJune 19, 2001
By Mark KrikorianExecutive Director, Center for Immigration Studies

Here is what Mark talks about:

Assumption 1. The flow of workers from Mexico is inevitable.
Assumption 2. The poor are overpaid.
Assumption 3. These are jobs Americans won't do.
Assumption 4. A free market in goods requires a free market in labor.
Assumption 5. Guestworkers will go home.
Assumption 6. There will be no significant cost to taxpayers.
Assumption 7. Mass access to foreign labor won't slow innovation.
Assumption 8. Such a program is administratively feasible.
Assumption 9. There are no alternatives.

This a great presentation that Mark Krikorian has put together. He de-bunks most of the arguments for the guest worker program. I've heard Michael Medved and Hugh Hewitt go on ad nausium about the benefits of this type of program. I think they are wrong. This will only encourage more illegal aliens and the US will never get its administrative act or funding together from one administration to the next to control the flow. There are imbedded costs aside from the entitlement payments to consider.
|||110012829630217076|||An Examination of the Premises Underlying a Guestworker Program