Be our guest, be our guest, be our guest....

Be our guest, be our guest, be our guest!

Guest workers, what a great idea---right?

Fearless Leader: I propose a new temporary-worker program to match willing foreign workers with willing employers when no Americans can be found to fill the job. This reform will be good for our economy, because employers will find needed workers in an honest and orderly system. A temporary-worker program will help protect our homeland, allowing border patrol and law enforcement to focus on true threats to our national security.

Haven't we seen this before?

OK, that is a bit of an exaggeration, but does anyone think that it is really a good idea to have a permanent underclass doing menial labor with no prospect of bettering themselves? In adition, just how offensive is the assertion that these "guests" will do the jobs that AMERICANS WON'T DO?

So we are now Kuwait? Germany bringing in poor Turks?

Remember the words of Justice Taney on sub-classes:

The question before us is, whether the class of persons described in the plea in abatement compose a portion of this people, and are constituent members of this sovereignty? We think they are not, and that they are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word "citizens" in the constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States. On the contrary, they were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated by the dominant race, and, whether emancipated or not, yet remained subject to their authority, and had no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power and the government might choose to grant them.