'No' on immigration reform?

Date: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 9:40 AM

H-1B and JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER

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Big business wants to have unrestricted access to Mexican "guest
workers" and they demand that Bush "reform" our laws to allow more of
them into the United States. Newspapers like the Tucson Citizen
casually disregard the fact that Arizona is ranked 38th in per capita
income and it's getting worse as wages are pushed down by the illegal
aliens. It's a shameful humanitarian failure that employers are allowed
to hire illegal aliens instead of the working poor in Arizona that are
legal residents of the state.

This clueless newspaper doesn't understand that the alternative to
guest worker programs is to enforce our laws. Guest worker programs
that legitimize the exploitation of cheap labor are not humanitarian.

Send letters to the editor to: letters@tucsoncitizen.com

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/opinion/3_1_03op2.html

Our opinion: 'No' on immigration reform
Tucson Citizen

March 1, 2003

There was discouraging - and predictable - news coming from Congress
this week: Any kind of serious immigration reform is likely dead for
this year.

President Bush had aggressively pursued immigration reform with Mexico
before the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. But lately he has been
silent on the issue - and Congress has followed his lead.

At the very least, Congress should have the courage to openly debate a
guest worker program. That is one of the few things that would address
the problem of Mexicans coming to this country because they need to
work and American employers hiring them because they need the workers.

What's the alternative? It won't be long before triple-digit
temperatures return to the Southwest and desperate immigrants die in
the merciless heat of the desert.

This failure to seriously discuss immigration reform is shameful from a
humanitarian standpoint.

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