An immigration issue question

[TallahasseeGrannie]

I am still unclear about a few things.

What is George Bush's stand on amnesty and open borders?

Thanks for your help.

[Virginia Dare]

1. George Bush is still unclear....n/t

[Burning Water]

2. From what I've

read, he's for amnesty (under another name of course, after all, we don't want too much honesty on the issue), and for controlling the borders.

[Marie26]

3. Anti-amnesty, pro-guest worker

He wants to create a guest worker program that allows people come to the US (temporarily) in order to work, but doesn't want to offer amnesty to people who are already here. He supposedly stands for enforcing the borders, though he hasn't funded it very well.

[Warpy]

4. Stupid wants open borders so his buddies can import

cheap Mexican labor instead of hiring Americans who need to pay American prices for the rest of their lives and know they can't possibly live on minimum wage for long. He's just dressing it up as "guest workers" and "temporary visa workers" so the paranoid idiots in his base will think there's some kind of border control filtering out all the criminals. The point of his immigration policy is to drive us all down to $5.15/hour.

Cheap ass employers need to be forced to pay a living wage. If that happens, the problem will pretty much solve itself, as most employers want a labor force they can talk to, and illegal Mexicans will find themselves going door to door hoping to rake leaves and weed flowerbeds.

We already have the laws on the books to punish cheap scumbag employers who hire illegals. We just don't enforce them. We already have wage floor laws, we've just allowed both parties to depress that wage below survival level.

It always comes down to wages. It's not the fault of the illegals. It's the fault of cheap labor conservatism that infects both parties and has found its most vocal supporter now in the White House.