Reuben, keep telling them.
A lot of people read the headline to your post, and dived right in. They never got to #6, but i did. What you want to do could largely be handled through a carefully-drafted Guest Worker program.
We need a guest worker program to round out our laws, because a guest worker program would take into account those people who are here just to work. We’ve had one before, and it worked to end an illegal immigration problem, before, but Ted Kennedy left it out of the current law due to objections by the Unions. Congress’ failure to draft a complete law has created the mess that was predicted to happen.
A guest worker program would allow people to leave more readily, and maintain their ties with their families at home. It would make it easier for people to move back home and enjoy a higher standard of living after leaving. For one thing, they would not have to divert so much of their hard-earned cash to coyotes. They could visit more often. And, because people who work here learn our system, it would export people who have a lowered tolerance of bribery and inefficiency in government. These are good things for us, and not-so-good things for thieves like Hugo Chavez.
A guest worker program would act as de facto foreign aid to our close neighbors that goes exactly where it’s most needed, bypassing those wasteful, bribe-taking filters that are currently in place. We could wind up returning South America’s most vigorous and desperate people after educating them in our system and allowing then to accumulate resources that would be significant at home.
