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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are reasonabke win win guest worker programs all over the world. All level of professionals from nannies to dentists come from places like Sri Lanka and the Philippines. THey leave their families at home. "GUEST" worker. If they meet and marry an American, great. Otherwise, their long term life is back home, where the economy is being bolstered by what they remit. I'm sure if Japan hasnt turned to this they will soon. Our Congress can easily legislate more guest worker and seasonal visas for high need areas.[/quote]

Sure, guest worker programs are something to consider (and what Japan is doing, in fact). But I'm not sure that guest worker programs really help with some of the other objections about immigrants not assimilating and being disruptive to communities.  The experience of European countries with Guest Worker programs after WWII would be worth studying.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastarbeiter

We also had the Bracero program in the U.S., which also was not really considered a success:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracero_program

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Also ... when studying the guest worker program, we'd also have to look to see whether the guest workers, as opposed to permanent immigration, has a different impact on the native-born population and the economy.  A lot of people here have claimed (against the evidence) that immigrants "steal" american jobs, drain the economy, and consume more in benefits than they contribute.  As ALL my research links have shown - this is not true. Immigrants contribute to the economy by consuming goods, creating jobs as entrepeneurs, and their native-born children contribute at a higher level.  This all has a positive synergistic effect on the economy, rather than reducing native-born wages. If they are guest workers confined to a single job and short time period, a lot of this positive integration into the economy couldn't really happen, and they would effectively be an "underclass" specifically for the labor use of the industry/employers that hire them.  Maybe this is effectively what's happening now anyway with illegal immigrants working in isolated professions (mainly ag) but that would merit examination. [/quote]

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