At 07:10 PM 3/12/2004 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>I haven't analyzed it in detail, but from what I've
>seen, I'm not impressed. It seems to me that there's
>a real danger in his program of creating a permanent
>class of guest workers - exactly the program that the
>Europeans have tried and that has failed miserably for them.
I have a favorable reaction to it because I think it is a skillful balance
of priniple and pragmatism for something that might actually be passed.
Ultimately, this policy achieves the following:
-a basic recognition of the fact that our economic survival paradoxically
is dependant upon an under-class of illegal immigrants we have created
-a basic recognition that workers who can find jobs here should be welcomed
-and further, that these workers should be able to pass freely back to
their home countries and to their jobs in the United States
-and lastly, that these workers should be placed on the track towards
citizenship and permanent residency, if they so desire.
JDG
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