The long, winding road to a guest worker program

“As thousands of illegal immigrants plan to rally Thursday in Washington, politicians, including President George Bush, have already stated their support of a guest worker program that would allow millions of foreign workers to find gainful - but temporary - employment in the United States.

But by law, guest worker programs already exist in the U.S. For example, an unlimited number of people can qualify for H2-A visas, intended for seasonal agricultural workers. Yet of the millions of undocumented field workers in the U.S. only 7,011 such visas were recorded as admissions by the Department of Homeland Security in 2005.”

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