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Foreign worker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A foreign worker (also: "guest worker" or "economic migrant"), is a person who works in a country other than the one of which he or she is a citizen. The term migrant worker is also sometimes used as a synonym for foreign worker, but this term may have a broader meaning as was also used in the past for nomadic agricultural workers who were not from another country - for example, people from Oklahoma working in California during the Depression. Sometimes, a host country sets up a program in order to invite foreign workers, as did the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1960s, when over one million of so-called guest workers (Gastarbeiter) were attracted, mostly from Italy, Spain and Turkey. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guest_worker   (603 words)

Transcript of President's speech on new immigration policy. Yet these jobs represent a tremendous opportunity for workers from abroad who want to work and fulfill their duties as a husband or a wife, a son or a daughter. All participants will be issued a temporary worker card that will allow them to travel back and forth between their home and the United States without fear of being denied re-entry into our country. Temporary workers will be able to establish their identities by obtaining the legal documents we all take for granted. www.visa2003.com /news/president.htm   (2390 words)

The Washington Monthly You questioned her on the status of children the guest workers might have in the States, with your implication being that they'll be US citizens, and that this will put the guest workers on the fast track to permanent residence (or, heaven forbid, citizenship). Having discouraged workers shifting to disability pensions and such while increasing the downward pressure on low skilled wages by importing millions of foreign citizens doesn't do the nation much good, either fiscally or morally, for the lives of these discouraged workers are impoverished by their reduced living standards. Worker's would be entirely at the whim of their employers, with none of the rights or protections against fraud or abuse that American workers are accustomed to. www.washingtonmonthly.com /archives/individual/2006_03/008498.php   (15304 words)

TomPaine.com - The Guest Worker Gamble In areas where guest workers were concentrated, the bargaining power of all workers in similar jobs declined and wages decreased. It guarantees guest workers all of the same workplace rights as U.S. citizens and, by bringing their employment out into the open, helps to ensure that minimum wage laws, safety standards and the right organize a union will be more consistently and effectively enforced. The bill also doesn’t tie guest workers to a single job, enabling them to leave an employer to seek a better opportunity elsewhere.  Thus, its progressive advocates argue, the bill is a significant improvement over the abuses to which undocumented workers are currently subjected. www.tompaine.com /articles/2006/03/23/the_guest_worker_gamble.php   (1062 words)

The American Spectator The Senate guest worker program does not "reward people for breaking the law." It acknowledges that we are willing (for our benefit as well as theirs) to allow working illegals to stay in the country without facing deportation, as long as they do certain things, including paying a penalty. A guest worker program should be complementary to better enforcement and border security and there is no reason not to do both at the same time. Furthermore, seasonal workers (such as in agriculture) could conceivably return to their home countries to live with their families during the off months (instead of trying to smuggle their families into the United States) without the fear that they would have to risk another clandestine border crossing when their work is to resume. www.spectator.org /dsp_article.asp?art_id=9622   (1838 words)

'Guest' worker wilderness - Commentary - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) Bringing back the braceros to work throughout the economy, and euphemistically calling them "guest workers," would be just such a case. No one considered them "guests" at all, but rather more like helots -- a permanent class of serfs in the fields that the public neglected, the employer exploited and other workers resented. Today thousands of aged and disabled farm workers are still in court trying to reclaim those stolen wages. www.washtimes.com /commentary/20050812-101659-9412r.htm   (509 words)

Guest-worker plans doomed? Undocumented workers already in the country say there is little incentive to sign up for a program that does not include provisions for becoming a legal permanent resident. A year later, the INS arrested 21 workers during a one-day raid, prompting thousands of immigrants to abandon the fields at the height of the harvest. However, not all employers of undocumented immigrants intentionally break the law because many workers use bogus documents that are often difficult to distinguish from the real thing, she said. www.azcentral.com /12news/news/articles/1024guest-main24-CP.html   (2505 words)

bush immigration guest worker Guest is peculiar in that he has been... Guest Informant is most commonly known as the hardcover book in the hotel rooms... Guest PC is virtual x86 emulator that allows you to install the Microsoft Windows operating system on your Mac and use the software developed only for... immigration2.tdrbizc.com /bush-immigration-guest-worker   (1425 words)

01/11/02 - Memo To The President: Nothing Is More Permanent Than Temporary Workers Amnesty proponents have seized on a “guest worker” program as the most politically palatable way to legalize as many as possible of the millions of Mexican illegal aliens already here, as well as the millions more who, terrorism and recession notwithstanding, will join them at the first opportunity. Today farm lobbies routinely report “farm worker shortages,” yet the unemployment rate in the country’s primary labor-intensive agricultural region, the Central Valley of California, is exceptionally high—12 to 15 percent in June 2001—compared to the national average of between 4 and 5 percent. Martin and Teitelbaum give a thumbnail summary of Germany’s experience with admitting guest workers, showing how programs intended to provide manual laborers for a year or two have led to a large, permanent non-German population, one with very high rates of unemployment and welfare dependency. www.vdare.com /sutherland/permanent.htm   (2852 words)

GUEST WORKER VISA - Home Page What is important to anyone considering legalization as either a guest worker or of their workers, interior enforcement is continuing and there is NO law until Mr. The attorney is available to speak in Spanish or in English to your potential guest workers. To prohibit implementation of title IV (which includes the proposed guest worker program) and title VI (which includes the provisions relating to the 11 million undocumented workers) until the President determines that implementation of such titles will strengthen the national security of the United States. www.guestworkervisa.com   (1137 words)

Guest Worker Fundamentals | Suppressed News A guest-worker program may benefit some employers and financial institutions and some taxes may be collected that are not now being paid, but it will not benefit the common good. The guest-worker plans now before the U.S. Senate require the contracted workers to return to their home country after several years. It is a corrupt addition that calls for bigger short-term profits for influential corporations at the expense of the public good and the despair and poverty of many of its most vulnerable citizens. suppressednews.com /mynews/news/EEFlFpupEVkrXrlqMq.shtml   (1453 words)

Say No to Guest-workers The Bush administration has said that it is open to the possibility of admitting many new guest workers from Mexico on temporary visas. A combination of higher wages for citizen workers, mechanization and freer trade in agriculture can eliminate the need to import desperate foreigners to work in American fields in conditions of virtual slavery for starvation wages. It is ironic that the sinister policy of replacing American citizen workers with foreign indentured servants is being promoted by the leadership of the Republican Party, which was founded in the 1850s by reformers like Abraham Lincoln, who championed free citizen labor. www.sci.sdsu.edu /salton/SayNoToGuest-workers.html   (1382 words)

BBC News | EUROPE | Germany's guest workers mark 40 years In the four decades since the first Turkish guest workers came to Germany they have learned to sustain themselves. We came as guest workers and 40 years later we are still guest workers - but the third generation will be German "We came as guest workers and 40 years later we are still guest workers," says Recep Tuerkoglu, head of the Islamic Turkish Association. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1627912.stm   (725 words)

John O'Sullivan on Immigration on National Review Online Yet almost all experience with such programs in several continents across several decades demonstrates that guest workers become permanent residents in due course — very often as a result of the kind of "amnesty" that the administration is again proposing here. Not even the Bush officials believe that either many illegals or many guest workers will go home‹that is one reason why they are increasing the number of "green cards" for permanent residents. Some entering them will be guest workers whose time has expired but who can find jobs in a growing "fl economy" fuelled by cheap labor of all kinds. www.nationalreview.com /jos/jos200401141005.asp   (1056 words)

TheRealityCheck.Org Guest Writer Finally, take the six million unmarried guest workers who will surely father at least one child in those six years. “Unless you can guarantee that these workers and their families are indeed temporary and will leave at the end of their work contract, a guest-worker program would be disastrous to this nation,” Humphries said. Now you have an idea of what this bogus guest worker program will do to you and your family. www.therealitycheck.org /GuestColumnist/fwooldridge031206.htm   (1446 words)

U.S.: Mexican Immigrants Reject Bush's Guest-Worker Plan The proposal, which would not lead to permanent residency permits for immigrants as Mexico was urging, still has to be drafted as a bill and submitted to Congress, where many legislators in both houses have already announced that they will oppose it. In fact, most of the guest workers would be expected to eventually return to their home countries. While the work visas were in force, workers could travel to and from their homelands without having to worry about being turned back at the U.S. border. www.ipsnews.net /interna.asp?idnews=21837   (949 words)

PrestoPundit » Blog Archive » Bush’s “Guest Worker” Fraud What we do historically have, and have had for many years, is … a guest worker program. Seldom in the current clamor over illegal alien workers and legalization and “guest workers” is the existing “H” visa program even mentioned.. Perhaps the simple answer to that question lies in the fact the “H” visa process requires forms to be filled out and adjudicated, time to pass, fees to be paid and, probably most importantly, a legitimate employer to pay standard US wages and provide standard US benefits to those “H” visa employee beneficiaries. gregransom.com /prestopundit/?p=1038   (449 words)

Federation for American Immigration Reform: What America Can Learn from France's Disastrous Guest Worker Pro As President Bush expends what little “political capital” he has left to promote a massive guest worker program in the U.S., France is being ripped apart by the unemployed and unassimilated offspring of their own failed guest worker programs of the 1970s and 1980s. Millions of people across the continent do not identify with the nations in which they live and, as the recent spate of violence indicates, many hold deep animosity and hatred to the host nations and cultures. FAIR and 9/11 FSA are urging Congress to reject any measures to increase the number of guest workers admitted to this country, enforce laws against illegal immigration, and to reduce overall immigration in order allow America’s own unassimilated and impoverished immigrant population to become part of the economic and social mainstream. www.fairus.org /site/PageServer?pagename=media_release11102005   (528 words)

Hispanic Business Forums - Be My Guest (Worker) SAN DIEGO -- Far too often political debates degenerate into shouting matches in which attempts at rational understanding are swept away by rhetoric aimed at winning an argument rather than solving a problem. And, no, that doesn't mean I'm for "amnesty." Many conservative talk radio personalities and conservative writers interchange the terms "amnesty plan" and "guest worker program" as if they were the same thing. Employers who employ undocumented workers have been the other half of the magnet that attracts. www.hispanicbusiness.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5544   (2130 words)

TIME.com: New Poll: Americans Favor a Guest Worker Plan -- Page 1 Americans polled by TIME magazine show strong support for a guest-worker program and a process for undocumented workers to become citizens, but they take a tough stance on securing the borders. That two-pronged approach to illegal immigration is the same one favored by President Bush, who wants both a guest worker program and tighter border security. Americans' biggest concerns about illegal immigration appear to be economic: 61% of those polled say they are very concerned about the cost of providing health care and education to illegal immigrants. www.time.com /time/nation/article/0,8599,1179117,00.html   (510 words)

Frosty Wooldridge -- Bush's Guest Worker Atrocity Equals Third World Momentum Bush’s guest worker plan spells ‘disaster’ for this country with an emphasis on the word ‘Third World Terror’. Bush’s guest worker plan, driven by ‘how stupid can he be’ Karl Rove, will contribute to the beginning of the end of our country. This guest worker plan offers millions upon millions of would-be legal immigrants who were waiting in line to jump the line. www.newswithviews.com /Wooldridge/frosty33.htm   (1518 words)

[No title] The biggest sticking points appear to be an amendment that would institute a guest worker program for undocumented immigrants and allowing illegal immigrants the chance to work toward legal status without first returning home. The immigration legislation the House of Representatives approved last December, HR 4437, would make "unlawful presence" a felony and it does not include a guest worker provision. They say a guest worker program would cost taxpayers between $3 billion and $4 billion annually. www.news10.net /storyfull2.aspx?storyid=16726   (423 words)

Frosty Wooldridge -- Guest Worker Program Illusion His new ‘guest worker’ program will leave America “dead on arrival” if he is allowed to continue this gargantuan fraud. Did the guest workers imported to Europe after World War II go home when they were no longer needed, or did they stay and send for their families to join them? Bush, you’re SO far removed from what is happening to America that your ‘guest worker’ illusion reflects your leadership skills. www.newswithviews.com /Wooldridge/frosty104.htm   (1744 words)

Amnesty/Guest-Worker is Immoral   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) Inviting foreigners to come to America as guest workers is equivalent to sending the message: You people are only fit to do menial jobs that Americans think they are too good to do. The various bills differ in whether or when the guest-workers will be expelled back to the poverty they came from, but the bottom line of all is to create a subordinate underclass of unassimilated foreign workers, like serfs or peasants in corrupt foreign countries. The employers commit a double offense if they pay the illegal workers with cash in order to evade paying payroll taxes and providing benefits to the workers. www.theconservativevoice.com /articles/article.html?id=10762   (930 words)

Bush: 'Guest worker' plan will benefit U.S. employers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) He argued that his proposal for a "guest worker" program is good for employers and illegal immigrants who want a mutually beneficial relationship. I have no problem with a guest program where the illegals have to go home first and apply to be allowed to come here to work legally and temporarily. With a guest worker program, they would be foreigners with permission to temporarilly work in the U.S. The solution is to have a regulated guest worker program for contracted foreign workers and then have severe sanctions for employers that violate the rules. www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1457773/posts   (2806 words)

McCain guest worker plan gets national support - The Business Journal of Phoenix:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) Arizona business and political backers of a guest worker program for immigrants wishing to work in the U.S. are getting some top-level backing. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is teaming with top labor unions, other business interests and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in support of a guest worker program and legal way for undocumented workers already in the U.S. to stay in the country. That measure includes a guest worker program but requires the estimated 11 million illegals already in the U.S. to return to their native countries and reapply for legal status. phoenix.bizjournals.com /phoenix/stories/2006/01/23/daily1.html   (843 words)

Guest-Worker/Amnesty Is Immoral -- January 2006 Phyllis Schlafly Report The wealthy Mexicans are glad to export some of their dissidents and unemployed so they can get jobs in the United States and send back $12 billion a year to Mexico. At the same time, at least 463,000 H-1B workers are employed in the United States, and some estimate twice that number. The best research on the economics of H-1B workers has been done by Professor Norman Matloff of the University of California/Davis. www.eagleforum.org /psr/2006/jan06/psrjan06.html   (3033 words)

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