Law Professor Argues for Guest Worker Program
Professor Bill O. Hing, director of Clinical Legal Education at Davis and a specialist in immigration policy and race relations, recently provided commentary in the San Francisco Chronicle on immigration enforcement legislation recently passed by the House and the Bush administration's proposed guest worker program.
Instead of constructing a 700-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexico border, which the current legislation calls for, Hing says that the right thing to do is to develop a system to facilitate the flow of Mexican migrants to the United States who are seeking employment opportunities.
"Given the economic imbalance between the two nations, we know that the flow will continue, legally or otherwise," Hing says. Regularizing the flow through a large guest-worker program would ease pressures at the border; address the labor needs of employers; bring the undocumented out of the shadows and end unnecessary border deaths that have resulted from current enforcement strategies.
January 2, 2006. San Francisco Chronicle
Instead of constructing a 700-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexico border, which the current legislation calls for, Hing says that the right thing to do is to develop a system to facilitate the flow of Mexican migrants to the United States who are seeking employment opportunities.
"Given the economic imbalance between the two nations, we know that the flow will continue, legally or otherwise," Hing says. Regularizing the flow through a large guest-worker program would ease pressures at the border; address the labor needs of employers; bring the undocumented out of the shadows and end unnecessary border deaths that have resulted from current enforcement strategies.
January 2, 2006. San Francisco Chronicle