The program reduces Government involvement and limits protections for foreign and domestic workers. SpecificallyFirst. the Panetta amendment provides even fewer protections than the Bracero Program of the forties. fifties. and sixties. which was highly criticized for its adverse effect on domestic and foreign workers. Second. past guestworker programs of this kind both herebraceroand in Europe have been found to spur undocumented immigration on the part of foreign workers who simply dont return home. Third. in an effort to encourage foreign workers to return home. the amendment would require contributions to a trust fund that could not be given back to an alien until he returned to his home country. However. these contributions may not be sufficient to induce aliens to leave the United States.
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