Guest worker program

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The Guest worker program is a program that has been proposed many times in the past and now also by U.S. President George W. Bush[1][2] as a way to permit U.S. employers to sponsor non-U.S. citizens as laborers for approximately three years, to be deported afterwards if they have not yet obtained a green card. The program has been criticized as granting amnesty for illegal immigrants, and as impractical under current law which grants birthright citizenship to children born in the United States.[3] It is unclear if undocumented workers will register into the program.

An article in The New Republic criticized a guest worker program by equating the visiting workers to second-rate citizens, who would never be able to gain citizenship and would have less residential rights than Americans. This would be in stark contrast to the rights granted to immigrants throughout U.S. history.

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  1. ^ The White House. President Bush Proposes New Temporary Worker Program January 7, 2004
  2. ^ Bush Reiterates Call for Guest-Worker Program (March 23, 2006)
  3. ^ Glenn Hankins, "It's time to end birthright citizenship" — Letter to the Chicago Tribune (August 25, 2007). "No guest-worker program will be practical until automatic birthright citizenship is eliminated. Guest workers will bring their spouses and they will have children here who will be American citizens. Result: The guest workers will never leave."
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