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Guest Worker Program vs. America

Should Guest Workers Face Taxation Without Representation?

With this recent "Immigration Reform" bill, and in particular with the Guest Worker provisions, I get the feeling that nobody is even checking to see if a given proposal is conservative or not. That is, nobody evaluates positions with regard to the fundamental principles the country was founded on.  The bill has been laid to rest, but no stake has been driven through its heart--it will be back. 

A Mexico-America guest worker program can only be justified on two grounds--that the Mexicans need it, or that the Americans need it. If Mexico needs it, then it should be their bill, and if America needs it, then we are in grave trouble. America is a Constitutional system of government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Now those people, of, by, and for whom that government is constituted, should be the exact same people in all cases. The most basic principle upon which America was founded, and to which it remains committed, is that one group of people should not govern another.

America has not always lived up to this ideal, and it is with a sense of shame that we look to those times when we have not, and with a fierce pride we regard the times when we have overcome those pernicious inequities. So if we now create by law a new class of people within our borders who are protected by and subject to our laws, but who are neither allowed nor invited to participate in establishing or abolishing those laws, how could this action be squared with our Declaration of Independence, or with many of the provisions of our own Constitution? Shall these workers on our lands who have no representation in American government be subject to American taxation? Shall they be relieved of American taxations despite living and working here, sharing the same privileges and hazards as a Citizen? Shall they be granted sufferage to vote for representation as a remedy for these ills?  If so, then how would they not be citizens?

There is nothing conservative about a Guest Worker Program.  The funny thing is, there is nothing liberal about it either.  There is no way to make a Guest Worker Program work in America.
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