This article is over a month old. I didn't see it before, but was really surprised by it. A guest worker program IMHO, takes jobs away from American citizens. Carson talks about turning off incentives and goodies; but I would think "come to America we'll give you a job" is pretty dang enticing...being rewarded for breaking the law is quite an incentive. Secondly, they register, they work here, then what? It's not like they are going to be asked to leave. The obvious next step to me would be granting them citizenship and voting rights. So ... I guess I'm trying to discern in the overall big picture what the difference is between a guest worker program and amnesty? Guest worker program I suppose sounds less drastic than all out amnesty, but eventually that would be the next step.
Ben Carson: Give Illegals Six Months to Register as Guest Workers(CNSNews.com) - GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson told CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday that his immigration plan would include giving illegal immigrants six months to register as guest workers.
“Those who are here, you know, we have to recognize that we can't just round them up, but we can give them an opportunity to register. I would give them a six-month period, and if they register and they have a pristine record, they haven't been causing problems, I would give them an opportunity to become guest workers, not citizens, not voting people, not people who get goodies,” said Carson.
“And I think that would be a fair way to do it. In terms of them becoming citizens later on down the road, if they have done things the right way, we, the American people, will decide what the criteria for that would be,” he added.
“I want to ask you for a moment about immigration, which, as you have said, that Donald Trump's plan for deporting those undocumented workers here is unrealistic, is it unrealistic because it's unfeasible, or is it -- do you have a moral problem with that notion of trying to deport all the undocumented workers who are here?” host John Dickerson asked.
“No, I believe the logistics are difficult,” said Carson. “As I said, I'm all ears. If somebody can tell me exactly how you can do that, I would certainly be interested in hearing it, but the fact of the matter is, our problem is that our federal government is not supporting the local authorities at the border.
“And it's disgusting, what is going on, that people are risking life and limb just to have ICE come along and say, release those people,” he said. “And that fence down there, I mean, when I was a kid, that barely represented any impediment whatsoever to our progress. It's ridiculous.
“Until we seal our borders, everything else is irrelevant, but let's say we get them sealed, because, certainly, in a Carson administration, that would be done within the first year,” said Carson. “You also turn off the spigot that dispenses the goodies so that people don't have any incentive to come here.”
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/melanie-hunter/ben-carson-give-illegals-six-months-register-guest-workers
