Moreover. they will undercut the wages of American workers or depress those wages. They are here and they are depressing wages. Wouldnt it be better to have a temporary worker program. where everyone is working within the law so when we need the temporary workers to build houses. for example. we issue more of these 2year visas. but when we dont need them. we stop issuing the visas? When those visas run out. we wait until we need more workers. Then we issue more visas. That is the way the temporary worker program is designed to work. The alternative some people wantwell. there are two alternatives. Either you allow the illegal situation to continue. which nobody wantsthat is not a solutionor you adjust all of the quotas Senator DORGAN was talking about and let everyone come in as a permanent worker. That totally upsets our immigration quotas. for one thing. Secondly. you do not have the flexibility of moving up or down depending upon what the labor requirements or demands are. Again. in housing. if we had let all of these workers come in as green card holders. as legal permanent residents. they are here and there is no ability to send them back where they came from. They have a legal right to be in the United States for the rest of their lives. That is why you do not want to try to deal with temporary. especially lowskilled worker categories. with extra green cards. That is why you have a temporary worker program. in addition to relieving the magnet for illegal employment. Let me make a couple of other points here.
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