Harry Reid Promotes a Guest Worker Program as Americans Are Losing Their Jobs

  Last week I wrote about Harry Reid and his statement that we need “comprehensive immigration reform” that includes amnesty and a guest worker program as soon as possible. I focused that post on the amnesty aspect of the bill but it wasn’t until I read this article that I gave the “guest worker” program more thought. To me the guest worker aspect and the amnesty aspect go hand in hand. But that article got me thinking a little more closely about the “guest worker program.”

  Every day Americans are losing their jobs as the policies put in place by the Obama administration deepen the recession. More and more Americans are looking for jobs that just aren’t there right now. Just that fact alone drives down the pay scale of the jobs that are available. More competition for fewer jobs leads to lower wages. Now factor in the “guests” that will be competing for those jobs.

  It is bad enough that there are not enough jobs in the country for Americans but when you add Harry Reid’s guest worker program into the equation you exacerbate the problem even more. On top of there being less jobs for Americans you now will have illegal aliens competing for those same jobs.

   The one thing that pissed me off almost more than anything else was when President Bush would say that illegal aliens are doing the work that Americans won’t do. I found that statement to be condescending, arrogant, and just plain wrong. When faced with the reality of feeding ones family I do not believe that there is any job that an American won’t do. And now that times are getting tougher the last thing an unemployed American needs is competition for a job from a person who broke the law to get here and does not belong here.

  We should be arresting illegal aliens when they are found, punishing the companies who employ them, and ship them back where they belong. This will open up more jobs for Americans as the unemployment rate rises closer to 10% every day. Now more than ever it is not the time to reward the criminals that broke into this country.

  Now is the time to take a stand for the American worker but with Harry Reid’s position that illegal aliens should be allowed to work in this country you have to wonder what side Harry Reid is on.

  I don’t think that there is any right time to reward illegal aliens with a guest worker program but with the economy worsening and Americans looking for jobs at record rates now is the worse time to propose such a ludicrous idea as a guest worker program.