Guest worker program

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The Guest Worker Program is a program that has been proposed many times in the past and now also by former U.S. President George W. Bush^[1]^[2] as a way to permit U.S. employers to sponsor non-U.S. citizens as laborers for approximately three years, to be deported afterwards if they have not yet obtained a green card. The program has been criticized as granting amnesty for illegal immigrants, and as impractical under current law which grants birthright citizenship to children born in the United States. It is unclear if undocumented workers will register into the program.

An article in The New Republic criticized a guest worker program by equating the visiting workers to second-rate citizens, who would never be able to gain citizenship and would have less residential rights than Americans.^{[citation needed]}

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^ The White House. President Bush Proposes New Temporary Worker Program January 7, 2004
^ Bush Reiterates Call for Guest-Worker Program (March 23, 2006)

v • d • e Illegal immigration to the United States and related topics

Issues	Human trafficking · Labor shortage · US-Mexico Border · Economic impact · Population · Guest worker program

Proposed legislation	DREAM Act (2001–2009) · H.R. 4437 (2005) · McCain-Kennedy (2005) · SKIL (2006) · S. 2611 (2006) · STRIVE Act (2007) · Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 S. 1348 (2007) · Uniting American Families Act (2000-2009)

Operations	Wetback (1954) · Gatekeeper (1994) · Endgame (2003-[2012]) · Front Line (2004-2005) · Return to Sender (2006-2007) · Scheduled Departure (2008)

Results	2006 Protests · List of people deported from the United States

Government organizations	Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · INS · Board of Immigration Appeals

Non-government organizations	CHIRLA · CCIR · NIF · FIRM · WAAA · CASA · NA · MM · MB · FAIR · MMP · MCDC · CCIR · SOS · CIS · NUSA · NPG · MPI · YDSM

Relevant U.S. laws	Naturalization Act (1790) · Naturalization Act (1795) · 14th Amendment (1868) · Naturalization Act (1870) · Page Act (1875) · Chinese Exclusion (1882) · Naturalization Act (1906) · Gentlemen's Agreement (1907) · Emergency Quota Act (1921) · Immigration Act (1924) · Tydings-McDuffie Act (1934) · Filipino Repatriation Act (1935) · Bracero Program (1942–64) · Magnuson Act (1943) · INS Act (1952) · INS Act (1965) · IRCA (1986) · Immigration Act (1990) · IIRIRA (1996) · NACARA Act (1997) · REAL ID Act (2005) · Secure Fence (2006)

Relevant International laws	UN Refugee Convention (1951)

Visas and Policies	Green Card Lottery · United States visas · Visa Waiver Program · Asylum in the United States · US-VISIT · Security Advisory Opinion · E-Verify · 287(g)