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Center for Immigration Studies Last year, I testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims against a bill that would have created a large agricultural guest-worker program for the first time since the so-called Bracero program, which brought close to 5 million Mexican farm workers to the United States between1942 and 1964. This result nicely summarizes the threat guest-worker programs (or large-scale illegal immigration) pose to America's agricultural competitiveness: By artificially inflating the supply of labor, the government's interference in the labor market keeps wages low, resulting in slowed mechanization, and stagnating productivity in fruit and vegetable production. This would represent an expansion of the current H2-A guest-worker visas, which allow some30,000 farm workers to enter the country legally each year. www.cis.org /articles/2001/msk02-25-01.html   (1056 words)

Center for Latin American Studies at UC Berkeley “Guest Workers or Legal Slaves” is an opinion piece arguing against the reinstatement of a guest worker program. In “Benefits of a Guest-Worker Program,” Sen. Phil Gramm presents his case for expanding the program. The article “Insult to Injury – Abuses of the Bracero Program Continue 35 Years Later” examines the problem of missing wages owed to former Bracero workers. socrates.berkeley.edu:7001 /Outreach/education/migrations2003/bracero.html   (523 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. In many countries, under many types of government, and across many time periods, experiences with guest worker programs have led to an overwhelming and simple consensus among those who have studied the issue: there is nothing more permanent than temporary workers. 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   (523 words)

dissentinghr4548.htm To ensure that U.S. workers' wages and conditions are not undermined by the availability of foreign workers, and to avoid exploitation of the foreign guest workers, the H-2A program includes minimum standards regarding wages, housing, reimbursement of travel costs, and a minimum work guarantee for all workers - foreign and domestic. A U.S. worker referred by a job registry or foreign guest worker, who travels more than 100 miles to the job, must be reimbursed by the employer for the cost of the worker's transportation from the worker's permanent place of residence or place of last employment. Agricultural employers desiring to hire foreign guestworker would have no obligation to find U.S. workers on their own behalf except to apply to the government-operated registry, advertise (on behalf of the registry) in a local publication, and make "reasonable efforts" to contact workers employed in the previous season. www.house.gov /judiciary_democrats/dissentinghr4548.htm   (5922 words)

AlterNet: IVINS: Bush's Bracero Program Another obvious flaw in the program is that companies seeking guest workers have to "prove" that the jobs they offer will not be taken by American citizens. What we have here is the old bracero program, a guest worker program, and it primarily benefits one group and one group only -- big business. Seems to me we owe Bush the benefit of the doubt on this, and it may not even be smart politically: The program would grant temporary legal status to about 8 million immigrants, but it's not going to make the 9 million Americans who are out of work happy, and some of them vote. www.alternet.org /columnists/story/17561   (1011 words)

Migration News Most calls for a new guest worker program with Mexico begin with the assertion that the proposal will NOT be like the discredited Bracero program, under which 4.8 million contracts were signed by US farmers and Mexican workers between 1942 and 1964. During the 1963 debate over extension, the House rejected a simple extension of the program, the Senate approved an extension that required US workers to receive the same non-wage benefits as Braceros, a provision unacceptable to growers. The US proposed a bilateral recruitment program under which the US government co-signed employer-migrant contracts to guarantee wages, housing and other promises, and Mexican Braceros began arriving after the Migrant Labor Agreement was signed on August 4, 1942; there were no admissions to Texas. migration.ucdavis.edu /rmn/more.php?id=10_0_4_0   (833 words)

Bracero Program The program supplied US farmers with cheap labor and Mexican workers the opportunity to work in the US, and then to be deported. A look at those supporting and opposing recent legislation for the "guest worker". An excellent presentation of the history, life and consequences affecting those in the Bracero program. www.lasculturas.com /lib/libBracero.htm   (148 words)

Guest Worker Programs for the 21 st Century It is often argued that a legal guest worker program reduces illegal entries, but 4.9 million Mexicans were apprehended during the Bracero years (both Bracero entries and apprehensions double count individuals admitted or caught several times). Like the Bracero program, farm employers who wanted to employ H-2 workers had to convince the U.S. Department of Labor that U.S. workers were unavailable at government-set wages and to provide the foreign workers with free housing and contracts that spelled out their rights and responsibilities. The H-2 program operated alongside the Bracero program, allowing farmers along the eastern seaboard to import Jamaican and other workers to hand cut sugar cane in Florida and pick apples in the Northeast. www.cis.org /articles/2000/back400.html   (2043 words)

Bush guest worker plan recalls bracero program / Thousands of Mexican workers were defrauded of 10% of pay The bracero program is not simply old history, it is something that must be looked at closely in designing a future guest worker program, said Harley Shaiken, director of UC Berkeley's Center for Latin American Studies and an expert on U.S.-Mexico trade and labor relations. Under the bracero program (roughly translated from Spanish as "working arms"), as many as 2 million Mexican laborers came to the United States under short-term contracts to fill a need for agricultural and railroad workers during and after World War II. "The main lesson (of the bracero program) is not to repeat those conditions because they were close to slavery, with absolutely no rights for the workers and all the benefits for the employers," he said. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/01/16/BAG6U4BHOR1.DTL&type=printable   (1041 words)

In These Times Second-Class Citizenship The guest worker program would be a tool for the employers to depress wages, whip workers in the name of ĂŹefficiencyĂ“, and lessen solidarity between migrants and the long time citizens of America by polarizing the workplace. The program does not guarantee immigrants from being mistreated and worked like slaves for extremly low wages, it does not offer them insurance and the goverment will be the one recieving money through their taxes. This program does not improve working conditions nor does it better the situation of illegal immigrants, whose labor is essential for the stability of this nation's economy. www.inthesetimes.com /comments.php?id=599_0_1_0_C   (6231 words)

Evaluating a Guest Worker Proposal--Senate Subcommittee Testimony In its thorough report on the bracero program in 1952, President Truman’s Comission on Migratory Labor found that “wages by States [for agricultural workers] were inversely related to the supply of alien labor.” Citizen farmworkers in the Southwest simply could not compete with braceros. A large temporary worker program “would have to have some limits which would have to be enforced. The East Coast employers preferred to keep the BWI program as it was, and hence the program continued to function according to the provisions of the Immigration Act of 1917. www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1082538/posts   (5928 words)

The Brownsville Herald » Is Bush plan another bracero? In the Valley, the guest-worker program — and the increased illegal immigration it brought — started after Mexico and the United States parted ways on the bracero program, Garcia said. Housing conditions for the workers were one of the major concerns about the bracero program, said Tony Villegas, who in 1954 became the first Hispanic health officer in Hidalgo County. With the increasing undocumented population came increasing numbers and types of abuses by employers until the bracero program was shut down in the early 1960s. www.brownsvilleherald.com /print.php?id=56823_0_1_0   (1115 words)

Migrant Education Region IX - San Diego and Orange County - California Rocio Rocha, 17, said a proposed guest-worker programs means that the United States recognizes its need for Mexicans to do jobs no one else wants. A child is considered "migrant" if the parent or guardian is a migratory worker in the agricultural, lumber or fishing industries and whose family has moved with in the past three years. Migrant Education Program Specialist Patricia Wilcox said she defined migrants as immigrants who move due to agricultural crop picking. www.migrantweb.org   (1416 words)

ParaPundit: AFL-CIO Opposes Big Foreign Worker Import Program At issue is a guest-worker provision that would allow hundreds of thousands of foreign workers legal access to the U.S. labor market each year and the impact those new low-wage workers would have on stagnant wages. New economic research that pits native-born workers against low-skilled immigrants in a struggle for jobs and wages has fueled a rift between some of Washington's most liberal lawmakers and their allies in economics and labor, who fear that the Democratic Party is pushing an immigration policy that forsakes the party's working-class mainstay. A Northeastern University study found that nearly 86 percent of all newly employed workers hired from 2000 to 2005 were immigrants. www.parapundit.com /archives/003343.html   (5939 words)

FOX6 San Diego - Migrant Worker Compensation The migrants are known as "braceros," the forgotten product of a guest-worker program between both countries. They are among more than 8,000 former migrant workers from Mexico and the southern United States who began collecting compensation payments Dec. 19. Most of the migrants were unaware that Mexico and the United States had agreed to keep part of their salaries for a pension fund -- a fund that never materialized. www.fox6.com /news/local/story.aspx?content_id=703FCCEE-A703-4609-8828-6BAC6EA176AF   (294 words)

Border Security and Immigration Reform Act of 2003 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the establishment of guest worker programs, to provide for the adjustment of status of certain aliens unlawfully present in the United States to the status of a nonimmigrant guest worker, and for other purposes. S. To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the establishment of guest worker programs, to provide for the adjustment of status of certain aliens unlawfully present in the United States to the status of a nonimmigrant guest worker, and for other purposes. If the United States employer is not found in violation of the program requirements, a new guest worker shall be assigned to the employer not later than 15 days after the end of the adjudication proceedings. www.theorator.com /bills108/s1387.html   (3740 words)

Center for Immigration Studies Last year, I testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims against a bill that would have created a large agricultural guest-worker program for the first time since the so-called Bracero program, which brought close to 5 million Mexican farm workers to the United States between1942 and 1964. This result nicely summarizes the threat guest-worker programs (or large-scale illegal immigration) pose to America's agricultural competitiveness: By artificially inflating the supply of labor, the government's interference in the labor market keeps wages low, resulting in slowed mechanization, and stagnating productivity in fruit and vegetable production. The period from 1960 to 1975 -- roughly from the end of the Bracero program to the beginning of the mass illegal immigration we are experiencing today -- was a period of considerable mechanization, with the average labor hours per acre used in harvesting fruits and vegetables dropping by about 20 percent. www.cis.org /articles/2001/msk02-25-01.html   (3740 words)

Bush immigration "reform" offensive under way » The Immigration Blog That's the new term for their "guest" worker program. By Chris Kelly · October 18, 2005 03:56 PM The Bush administration seems to be conducting an offensive to get "comprehensive" immigration "reform", including a "Temporary Worker Program". Therefore, our strategy of reforming our immigration system is a three-pillar, comprehensive approach that focuses on controlling the border, building a robust interior enforcement program, and establishing a Temporary Worker Program. michellemalkin.com /immigration/2005/10/18/03:56.pm   (436 words)

Immigration Reform Overview The bill would establish a guest worker program for seasonal and nonseasonal work (a new nonimmigrant W-1 and W-2 visa, respectively.) Temporary workers with 3 years in the program could adjust to permanent resident status. He has proposed a temporary worker program "to match willing foreign workers with willing U.S. employers when no Americans can be found to fill the jobs." The program would be open to unauthorized immigrants currently working in the United States, and to new foreign workers. These bills would establish new visa programs for unauthorized immigrants residing in the United States and for those seeking to enter the United States as temporary workers (new nonimmigrant visas H-4A and H-4B). www.ncsl.org /programs/immig/immignew012004.htm   (536 words)

VDARE.com: Give Me More Money, Please! - before Dec 31! El Presidente has made it clear—many times over—that he will reject any bill that does not include a guest worker program. In February, Congress will look at two important pieces of legislation—legislation that does address things like, guest worker programs. A tad more restrictive, this bill asks the workers to actually leave the country before they apply for a guest worker visa. www.vdare.com   (1233 words)

Articles, Commentaries, and Reports from Rescue American Jobs The implications of offshoring, offshore outsourcing, non-immigrant guest worker programs, trade, insourcing,, and other employment-related issues in-depth and suggest solutions and their roles the American jobs crisis. Rescue American Jobs articles about the current American middle-class jobs crisis: trade, guest worker programs, economic policy, and offshore outsourcing. The consequences of widespread fraud and abuse of temporary foreign guest worker programs, (H-1B, L-1, H-2A/B, temporary work visas) the problems inherent in the program, abuses, fraud, examples, stories, and suggested solutions. www.rescueamericanjobs.org /articles   (470 words)

Arizona Congress Watch » Trent Franks opposes illegal alien amnesty “Congressman Trent Franks said he would back a temporary or guest worker program but only if it does not offer amnesty or give preferential treatment to illegals.” Roll Call suggests that Kyl guest-worker program may pass Senate, Harsh! Kolbe targeted in Flash editorial cartoon, Flake: & simply have too much power”, Extra: Trent Franks respects division of church and state!">10 www.azcongresswatch.com /?p=118   (109 words)

Keyword 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. The latest Time Poll of 1,004 adults, conducted March 29-30, finds that even a large majority of border state residents, 78%, favor the guest worker approach over... As a growing chorus of former generals criticizes the Iraq war and fresh questions emerge over flawed intelligence, a new poll shows that nearly half the U.S. public supports a possible military strike to stop Iran's nuclear program but most don't trust President George W. Bush to lead it. www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=POLL   (3873 words)

NAOC > Editorials > Step Up Reform: Our protest: Immigration fix is overdue (DALLAS MORNING NEWS) Unfortunately, talk of a guest-worker program spurs talk of that seven-letter dirty word – amnesty – which is not synonymous with what we support. Bush understands the practicality of combining stricter enforcement with a guest-worker program. But even many of our most conservative congressional representatives will tell you it's impossible to deport a population the size of Ohio, so a pathway to legalization is a key piece to making the plan workable. www.cirnow.org /content/en/dallasmorningnews_050306.htm   (359 words)

Trade Matters : AFSC This new Trade Matters discussion paper reviews the U.S.-Mexico Bracero guest worker program of the 1940's and 60's looking for lessons to inform negotiations for a global guest worker program at the WTO level. Spread the word to your friends, family, and co-workers and help sow the seeds for a better life for producers and their families around the world. As the WTO gears up for the next ministerial meeting in Hong Kong in December, some developing country governments are pushing for an expansion of the types of labor currently covered under the GATS. www.tradematters.org   (239 words)

ANLA Supports Immigration Reform Act The bill is aimed at reforming the H-2B guest worker program, which is the visa program that allows non-agricultural, temporary and/or seasonal foreign workers into the country to work jobs not taken by American workers. The Immigration Reform Act’s primary appeal to the landscape industry is its potential to allow the legalization of current illegal workers, as well as streamlining the ability to bring in future guest workers. Another key initiative of the act is to create a new worker category called H-2C, with 200,000 available positions renewable in two years. bg.grounds-mag.com /ar/grounds_maintenance_anla_supports_immigration   (239 words)

Update on Legalization/Guestworker Developments The compromise, if enacted, will (1) create an “earned  legalization” program enabling undocumented farm workers to earn legal permanent status if they have been working in the U.S. and continue to work in agriculture for a period of time; and (2) reform the existing agricultural guest worker program, the H-2A temporary foreign agricultural worker program. The compromise also streamlines the process for employers who seek to bring in foreign workers, while providing additional protections for those workers. While this is a historic compromise, it is only the first step to broader reform of our current immigration system. www.ufw.org /H2Aanalysis.htm   (1222 words)

Western Growers Association As part of that same package, WG is recommending reform of the H2A Guest Worker Program that would make it easier to use the program. WG is involved in virtually every aspect of promoting the agricultural industry - from working on community projects such as the school garden program to offering financial products and services, such as asset allocation, estate planning and business continuation planning. Western Growers is also currently working with the Arizona Governor and legislature to implement a state developed program. www.wga.com /public/active/siteBuilder/showPage.php?id=228   (1222 words)

Untitled Document A relatively short-lived guest worker program thus unintentionally turned Germany into a reluctant host for permanent immigration. But most unemployed guest workers declined to "rotate" back to their home countries, knowing that as bad as things were in Germany, the job prospects in Turkey or Yugoslavia were even bleaker and the social safety nets less generous. The program was promoted as temporary, "rotational," and mutually beneficial: the guests would work for one or two years in Germany and then return to their home countries with savings and new skills. www.davidson.edu /academic/german/denham/Ger252/Hannah.htm   (4872 words)

Border council calls Bush plan 'slap in the face' - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics The National Border Patrol Council, which represents all 9,000 of the Border Patrol´s nonsupervisory agents, has told its members to challenge President Bush´s proposed guest-worker program, calling it a "slap in the face to anyone who has ever tried to enforce the immigration laws of the United States." Frecker told The Washington Times that the Bush guest-worker proposal was "insulting," saying it diminished efforts by agents at the nation´s borders who risk their lives every day to stop illegal immigration. "The border is, maybe, 10 percent more secure than it was prior to September 11, but it is still out of control," he said. www.washtimes.com /national/20040112-123623-1914r.htm   (560 words)

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