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(CNSNews.com) - President Bush is moving forward with his plans to
create a "Temporary Worker Program" that would allow millions of illegal
aliens to remain and work in the U.S. for a minimum of three years with
no fear of deportation or other punishment. Advocates of tougher
immigration policies believe the president is ignoring the costs and
potential dangers posed by illegal immigration.

In his final, scheduled, formal press conference of the year, the
president criticized current U.S. immigration policy.

"The system we have today is not a compassionate system. It's not
working," Bush said Dec. 20. "And, as a result, the country is less
secure than it could be with a rational system."

Any proposed changes to immigration policy must take into account what
the president calls "reality.""

\ldbl quote There are some jobs in America that Americans won't do and
others are willing to do," Bush said. "We ought to have a system that
recognizes people are coming here to do jobs that Americans will not do.
And there ought to be a legal way for them to do so."

According to a White House fact sheet entitled, "Fair and Secure
Immigration Reform," the president's "Temporary Worker Program" would
allow new immigrants to the U.S. and those currently here illegally to
accept employment "when no American worker is available and willing to
take a job.""

Ira Mehlman, media director for the Federation for American Immigration
Reform, told the Cybercast News Service that Bush's proposal is, "a
great plan if your objective is to destroy the middle class in the
United States.

"If you are going to offer employers the opportunity to bring in
unlimited numbers of guest workers then there is never going to be any
incentive to increase wages in this country [or] to improve working
conditions," Mehlman said. "Upward mobility will become a thing of the
past if such a plan is enacted."

http://www.townhall.com/news/politi...20041229a.shtml

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