I think anyone would have to recognize that is not a good structure. The third problem I have with the bill is there is no real avenue for any of these individuals we are talking about to ever gain legal status. so we are creating a group of workers who have come to this country and worked for 2 years or 4 years or 6 years. to whom then we are saying: Your time is up. go home. There is a tremendous likelihood that we are going to have a lot of people staying over and overstaying their visas. I think that is unfortunate. That is a change from the previous legislation. We passed that bill Senator KENNEDY brought to the Senate floor last year and I supported it. There was a much more realistic opportunity for people who came in under the guest worker program to pursue legal status at some time. so the incentive to essentially go underground to try to avoid deportation was not the same in that bill. I think the most significant thing we can do at this point to try to correct the most significant problem with this guest worker program is to reduce the number. Let me show a couple of charts. for my colleagues to understand what we are talking about.
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