Word: migrant
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...sweeping amnesty for illegal immigrants. The measure was also supposed to crack down on future illegal immigration. It didn't. Desperate indocumentados kept pouring in, and eager U.S. businesses kept hiring them. A decade later, when I was based in Mexico City, Washington tried again with the Illegal Immigrant & Migrant Responsibility Act. It was going to "seal" the border with more fences and thousands of new border patrol agents. It didn't. By 2000, in fact, the number of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. had risen to almost 2 million a year, the highest ever...
...Senate's new bill promises to be this decade's contribution to a long line of immigration Band-Aids. Granted, its guest-worker program is the right idea, as long as it doesn't repeat the human rights abuses of the last century's bracero project. Letting 400,000 migrant construction workers, lawn-cutters and other laborers into the U.S. each year, legally and temporarily, is a solid way to turn the border's deadly chaos into a safer and more sensible flow - and let our border cops pursue genuine national security threats instead of Guatemalan nannies...
...some of the Senate's key guest-worker provisions are impractical at best. That includes the requirement that after two years working in the U.S., migrants must return to their home countries for a year before they can renew their status and come back to the States. No Mexican campesino I've ever met follows that kind of truncated migrant schedule. If he's not allowed to renew his two-year guest-worker stint immediately, he'll simply make another illegal crossing - and return to the same undocumented shadows we were trying to lure...
...MONEY $23 billion Amount of money sent home by Mexican migrant workers in 2006, mostly from the U.S. $9 Median hourly wage in 2004 of Mexican-born workers...
...billion Amount of money sent home by Mexican migrant workers in 2006, mostly from...