Dr. Plonkensteen wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:44:01 -0700, Rudy Canoza
> <pipes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> mumbled:
>
>> Dr. Plonkensteen wrote:
>>> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:07:00 -0700, greg3347 <theodoric3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>> mumbled:
>>>
>>>> Millions at war, crops
>>>> harvested.
>>> You do recall that was the initiation of the Bracero Program...don't
>>> you?
>> "By 1945, the quota for the agricultural program was
>> more than 50,000 braceros to be employed in U.S.
>> agriculture at any one time, and for the railroad
>> program 75,000."
>> Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracero_Program
>>
>> That's a pretty far cry from the 10 million (minimum)
>> illegal aliens working in the country today, not to
>> mention another 10 million or so of their non-working
>> illegal alien relatives. The bracero program also was
>> just that: a government sanctioned and regulated
>> program. Despite all the hysterical anti-immigrant
>> sentiment from some, I think the large majority of
>> Americans would approve of a regulated guest worker
>> program, provided it didn't lead to some kind of fast
>> track to permanent residence.
>
> Precisely.
>
> There was no need to cut into the war effort then, just as there is no
> need to cut into skilled labor today.
>
> Issue permits, smart ID cards, regulate, monitor.
>
> End of story for all the hysteria crowd.
Without hysteria, there is no news.
--
"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier."
Kipling: "The Young British Soldier"
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