Bush's migrant reform gets a defense

http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=78794§ion=LOCAL&subsection=LOCAL&year=2004&month=1&day=31

IRVINE – A top Homeland Security official called President George W. Bush's immigration-reform plan "bold and visionary," saying that far from being a self-serving, vote-grabbing move, it is really a risky venture.

Citizenship chief Alfonso Aguilar said Friday during a visit to Orange County that the president's immigration proposals acknowledge the hard work of illegal immigrants. He added that it is a plan that should be applauded, not condemned.

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"It brings immigrants out of the shadows. It shows them and their intentions for staying here," Aguilar said. "And finally it's compassionate, it helps them by regularizing their status. Many of them are being exploited with low wages. That way we guarantee them labor security."

and they have to go home after 3 years and the banks can charge them an arm and a leg to transfer their money to their families left behind? This to me is "open exploitation". It is no longer denying that it exists, now it admits to low paying wages and making money off those who will work for shit jobs for shit money and let the corporations and the banks make money in the process.

to process chicken and beef in their dangerous processing plants want to "help" these people?

Not. They want to be able to exploit these people by rotating them in and out on 3 year guest worker passes.

The workers won't have any rights or any recourse because they won't be able to vote. And they won't be able to stay in the country long enough to learn how to organize.