Bush touts guest worker program in California speech

[norml]

UPDATED: 07:55, April 25, 2006

Bush touts guest worker program in California speech


U.S. President George W. Bush Monday touted the idea of a guest worker program to business leaders in a California county, where illegal immigration has become particularly divisive, even among his own Republican Party.

Bush, wrapping up a four-day California visit, said that a rational, temporary guest worker program would make sense for both businesses and immigrants.

The president said in his speech to the Orange County Business Council in Irvine, some 70 kilometers south of Los Angeles, that a ``tamper-proof ID card'' for guest workers would allow the border patrol to focus on drug and gun smugglers and not people who just want to work.

"A tamper-proof card all of a sudden makes interior enforcement work," Bush said.

Bush has been criticized for appearing mostly before groups that agree with his views, but among the audience at Monday's event were some Republicans who disagree with Bush's immigration policies.

Opposition to illegal immigration is high in California's Orange County, where Minuteman Project co-founder Jim Gilchrist lives.


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http://english.people.com.cn/200604/25/eng20060425_260836.html

[justice1]

1. It's only a way to legalize what employers are doing now.

[SlipperySlope]

2. To hell with * and his stupid amnesty program.

Screw Bush
Screw amnesty
Screw "guest workers"
Screw the Rethuglicans

[Neil Lisst]

3. can we have them rat out their employers as part of the deal?

And then require their employers to cover all the social costs for the worker and his family?

The free market doesn't work if government helps some employers by helping them pay a less than living wage.

[LibDemAlways]

4. He once again spewed the complete lie

about illegal immigrants doing jobs Americans "won't do." He and his elitist Crime Family would certainly never clean a toilet or work in a field, but plenty of Americans do those jobs every day. There's no job Americans "won't" do.