You can call it legalization or earned status adjustment or regularization. but a guest worker plan that lets illegals keep their jobs is amnesty. Madam Chairman. do not take my word for it. Here is what the President of the National Council of La Raza said of the distinction between legalization and amnesty: "The net effect is the same." Madam Chairman. under a guest worker plan. illegal aliens would be pardoned for all their document and employmentrelated crimes. get credit toward Social Security benefits for what they have earned illegally. and get to bring in their families and unfairly gain for their children born here one of the most coveted distinctions on Earth. that of American citizenship. Madam Chairman. my colleagues. as we consider ways to stop illegal immigration. we should be guided by two principles: number one. do not reward law breakers. including illegal aliens or those who hire them. number two. do not create incentives for even more illegal immigration. A guest worker scheme violates both. It also has something else going against it.
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