Guest Worker Program

The Guest Worker Program is a program that has been proposed many times in the past as a way to permit US employers to sponsor non-U.S. citizens as laborers for approximately three years.  The program has been criticizes for granting amnesty for illegal immigrants. Until last class, I didn’t know how complicated the program was.  My grandfather began working in the US through the green card and this is eventually how he obtained residency and, later, citizenship. Although he worked in construction and not in agriculture, had he not had the opportunity to work in the US with a green card and had he not obeyed the rules, my father might not have been born in the states and I would not be an American. Although I understand both the positive and negative sides of the argument, if the US were to get rid of the program, conflict would ensue.  The Latino workforce in the US is an asset to the country.