Speech #980043338

I could support a guest worker program that includes a formal agreement with the Republic of Mexico. That agreement must recognize the U.S. guest worker program as making a significant contribution to Mexicos economy. The agreement would also formalize Mexicos commitment and obligation to help control the flow of illegal aliens into the United States. Both countries would be receiving a valuable benefit. I think that such a guest worker program would be good foreign policy as well as good immigration policy. This component is missing from this bill and would be a major change in Mexicos policy. Presently. the Mexican Government does not play a role in policing the MexicoUnited States border. We need to explore ways to change this policy. Another matter that we must face with realism is that we are not going to keep the illegal aliens from coming. The issue is economic. As long as we have poverty in high proportions in the world the illegal aliens are going to come. They will come in spite of employer sanctions. They will come regardless of employee indentification systems.