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To: tsigprofit who wrote (5527)	1/9/2004 3:33:30 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

So that's my point. They should be. Won't it be easier once they are made legal guest workers?? And you don't believe there will just be a new category created for "illegal guest workers"??? I have to say that you have much greater faith in "the system" than I.

To: tsigprofit who wrote (5527)	1/9/2004 3:54:15 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 20773

I grew up on a farm during the last bracero program. We had what amounted to a small apartment complex at the back of the farm where a half dozen families from Mexico lived during the cotton season. At the same time there were large numbers of illegal workers too. They worked short term jobs, and temporary or one-time projects. There was no incentive to hire a bracero for a whole season unless there was a seasonful of work to do. I don't see a new bracero program changing that balance. Perhaps if he government ran the equivalent of a manpower agency so that it made sense for those who work at the short term illegal jobs. When the program ended in the mid 1960s the biggest change was that the new groups of illegal workers no longer had their families with them. There was more of a tendancy to drink, fight, and run off. Much of the work was then replaced with mechanical pickers and equipment. TP