GUEST WORKER PROGRAM ILLUSION
GUEST WORKER PROGRAM ILLUSION
By Frosty Wooldridge
President Bush finally made a limousine tour of our broken borders. His cosmetic stops at the border presented photo ops much like his Johnny-come-later stops in New Orleans. He didn’t see the millions of tons of trash, stay to watch the thousands of illegals crossing nightly, nor did he ask any American citizens about their horror stories.
Nevertheless, he did make a few promising speeches on what he was going to do. However, and this is a big HOWEVER, he didn’t follow through with his speeches on giving 10,000 more Border Patrol officers and he has not followed through with interior enforcement of our immigration laws as to the arrest of employers of illegal aliens.
Instead, he presented yet more aspects of his guest worker amnesty program. Let’s not fool ourselves like Bush tries to fool us—it is an amnesty program. And, much like he didn’t think about or design an exit strategy from Iraq, he hasn’t thought of any of the problems with this guest worker program.
Additionally, why give them three to six year guest working cards when they are only here to pick lettuce, berries and apples? Why not a three month working visa and out the door at the end of the season? Since Bush refuses to think past his nose on this nightmare, we'll ask a few pertinent questions:
- Will spouses and children be able to accompany the guest worker? Just minor children, or adult ones as well?
Because if they do, we’ve got to build thousands of new schools, homes and infrastructure for these ‘seasonal’ fruit and berry pickers, and their families. This will mean millions of more people added to our already congested cities--along with the guest workers.
- Will any or all of the above be able to demand government services in the language of their choice, per President Clinton's Executive Order 13166? Will the workers be required to have at least a minimal working knowledge of English?
At what point do we expect our country’s language, English, to be honored by foreigners? Why not rescind Clinton’s moronic Executive Order 13166 that has cost American taxpayers millions of dollars? What happens when there are more Spanish speakers in sections of our country and the bigger cities that we simply abandon them as foreign city states within our country? Will we still be America or just another internally violent Third World nightmare?
- Will the children be eligible to attend school, and if so, at whose expense? In what language(s) will they be educated?
Give us a breakdown Mr. Bush on WHO will pay for these kids. Will the corporations who will be enjoying our country becoming the ‘low wage paying capitol of the world’ be shelling out money for guest workers’ kids?
- How will health care services - including birth control - be provided and paid for?
To give you, Mr. Bush, an idea of what this guest worker program will cost, how about the 86 hospitals that have collapsed in California because of non-paying hordes of illegals? Who, sir, will be paying for even more additional millions of guest workers using our medical services?
- Will any children born in the United States, automatically become US citizens?
You, Mr. Bush, have not stopped the ‘anchor baby’ invasion in the past five years at over 350,000 annually. What about these new ‘anchor babies’ and who will pay for them? Are you going to take it out of your retirement funds? Or will you be sending the bill to U.S. taxpayers as you have for the past five years?
- Will the workers be eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit? Will children remaining in the home country count as deductions when calculating the EITC benefit? How will the number of dependents claimed be verified?
Since “Corruption becomes a mechanism by which citizens of Mexico operate,” how do you expect them to all of a sudden be honest, hard working and lawful outsiders in our country?
- Will IRS and Social Security charges be deducted from their wages? Will they be eligible for Social Security benefits, either here, or later in their home country? How many quarters of work will be required for eligibility? (Six years equals 24 quarters, less than the 40 quarters required for US citizens.)
What about it Mr. Bush? Have you thought this one out? What about the fact that our Social Security program is already in deep doodoo? Have you figured out an ‘exit strategy’ for these guest workers?
- Will workers be permitted to marry? Will those who marry a US citizen, or have a child while here, be able to stay beyond the six-year period? Would a man who fathers an "illegitimate" child qualify for citizenship on petition by the child when it reaches legal majority?
What about the integrity of citizenship for Americans versus blatant disregard for citizenship based on the loss of the rule of law? How do you turn that donkey around Mr. President?
- How about Worker's Compensation and unemployment?
Sir, we’re talking about 20 million illegal aliens working at slave wages that want to have medical and unemployment paid. But what happens when they demand a living wage?
- If the job for which the worker came to the United States evaporates or otherwise disappears, will workers be required to take a different job, or returned home? If relocation is required, who will pay the expense? Will they be eligible for unemployment? If so, who pays a premium?
Got an answer to that one Mr. Bush? I’d love to hear it.
- Will child labor laws apply, especially in the fields?
Since you’ll be rewarding millions of desparately poor Mexicans and other Third Worlders, how will you police their actions in the lettuce fields of despair?
- Will the workers be able to purchase a car, and obtain a US drivers license? If so, will they be required to purchase automobile insurance, and will this be available to them at a cost they can likely afford?
Will we be changing all our road signs into Spanish? How about Arabic? How about Portuguese?
- Will children be eligible to attend college? If so, at what tuition rate: in-state or out of state?
Who pays for those kids in our colleges when migrants work for such pathetic wages? How many of our kids will lose college slots to students from other countries?
- Will minimum wage laws apply? How about the Davis-Bacon Act?
Much like your ‘Mission Accomplished’ in Iraq, you’re about to create another debacle that will tip this country into crisis more than you quite understand or comprehend.
- Will the workers be free to unionize to demand improved wages and conditions?
When they demand living wages and unions, what are you going to do?
- Will there be requirements for immunizations, and initial and periodic health clearances? On what schedule? Who pays?
Perhaps you can get guys like Michael Brown formerly of FEMA to figure out that question?
- Will workers come under any contract? If so, enforceable in what courts? Will public defenders be provided? At whose expense?
- What system of identification documents will be required?
- If conditions have not improved in the home country after six years, what are the chances that the guest workers will go home? Did the guest workers imported to Europe after World War II go home when they were no longer needed, or did they stay and send for their families to join them?
- Will workers and their adult spouses be able to vote in local elections?
- How will the workers (and families?) be housed and fed?
- Will workers be permitted to travel home at will? Do they receive two weeks paid vacations?
- Given these difficulties, won't most employers of the illegal aliens still prefer illegals?
Mr. Bush, taken as a whole, isn’t this really just a system of Indentured Servitude? Isn’t it a plan that will rip this country into two countries? Won’t it legalize a slave class? Won’t it erupt into violent confrontations much like Paris, France? Isn’t it a recipe for disaster much like the man who swallowed the scorpion? Would you walk barefoot on broken glass? Or, do you want American citizens to walk on broken glass for you?
Why not once and for all stand up for America, for our Constitution, for our language, for our way of life, for what it means to be an American? Is that too much to ask?
Write for that 25-point action letter to stop this nation-destroying madness at www.frostywooldridge.com. Check out Mark Edwards’ "Wake Up America" talk show on 50,000 watt KDWN-Am-720 10:00 PM to midnight PT, or on the worldwide Internet at www.thewakeupamericafoundation
www.balance.org. Become a part of the "21st Century Paul Revere" bicycle ride across America coast to coast next summer with Frosty as he and his band of riders carry this message from the Golden Gate Bridge to the steps of the nation's capitol in Washington, DC. Inquire at his email address for full details on how you can participate: frostyw@juno.com
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