I’ve been waiting for Congressman Tom Tancredo’s opinion on the Bush-proposed “Guest Worker Program.” Here it is.
A basic problem with the plan is the standard used for determining the “need” for guest workers. The president has repeatedly said that the goal of the program is to “match willing employers with willing workers.” I have news for him: There are at least a billion “willing workers” across the planet who will gladly take jobs at lower wages than Americans now doing those jobs. The president’s plan places no numerical limit on the number of such guest workers. There is no job beneath any hard-working American, just jobs that pay too little to support their families.
I said about the same before. Let’s see how this plays out as Congress addresses it.
Tancredo’s web site is here.