From a California perspective. it is impossible to say to somebody you can come here for at least six years by renewing your guest worker permit. but at the end of six years you have to go home. The experience we have had is quite simply people do not go home. Therefore. it seems to me that the H2A program. where you bring someone for a limited period of time. has a much better opportunity to work because then they do go back and forth across the border What do you believe is the optimum amount of time that an individual will come as a guest worker and then actually go home at the end of that period of time?
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People do not go home after their guest worker permits expire.