Ideally, a guest-worker program would have no cap so labor flows would adjust with supply and demand.
Another provision would set up a three-year guest-worker program with the option to renew for another three years.
Cuomo has urged the state's congressional delegation to support creation of a new guest-worker program for the dairy industry.
The number and type of visas provided through a guest-worker program would have to be sufficient to address this pressing need.
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Delegations of upstate New York farmers have traveled to Washington to lobby for an expansion of the guest-worker program for agriculture.
But a shrunken, bureaucratic guest-worker program that lets unions define job openings and determine wages is worse than the status quo.
His brief statement of principles sounded similar to the Senate bipartisan outline, save for his notable omission of a guest-worker program.
Miller says he's flabbergasted that even as Congress considers creating a huge new guest-worker program, no one is talking about regulating recruitment.
The better way is a large and robust guest-worker program that lets the flow of immigrants meet labor demands across the economy.
Mr. VOISIN: If it wasn't for the guest-worker program, our business would be on the verge of collapse, the processing part of our business.
The guest-worker program is likely to be expanded in the House.
"It probably takes off the table the creation and rapid implementation of any major new guest-worker program, " says Craig Regelbrugge of the Agriculture Coalition for Immigration Reform.
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul recently made a splash when he endorsed immigration reform, and he had the right idea this week when he called for a simple, generous guest-worker program.
Last year, when we visited Motivatit Seafoods in Houma, Louisiana, we met a group of Mexican women who were brought into the United States with H2B visas, part of the guest-worker program.
Romney suggested that McCain's support for a guest-worker program in his immigration package amounted to "amnesty, " and that he feared McCain would do to immigration what he had done to campaign finance with the McCain-Feingold bill.
Just last week the White House said it was considering a task force proposal to allow the estimated 3 million Mexicans living illegally in the United States to achieve permanent legal residence through a guest-worker program.
The point of all this for the reform debate is that these migrants come to the U.S. to work, and they will keep coming illegally if a guest-worker program is too small or too cumbersome to use.
Last year, Bush endorsed a "comprehensive" immigration reform bill that would couple tighter border controls with a guest-worker program and a path to citizenship for the 10 million-plus illegal immigrants now estimated to live in the United States.
Still, Republicans and Democrats placed strict new conditions on the immigration measure on Wednesday, voting overwhelmingly to slash the number of foreign workers who could come to the U.S. on temporary visas, capping the guest-worker program at 200, 000 a year.
The question of temporary workers has traditionally produced a stark divide between business and labor, with business seeking a large, low-cost supply of workers, and labor opposed to any guest-worker program that could threaten American laborers and produce questionable working conditions.
Two weeks ago, House Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor delivered an important speech that signaled a willingness to support legal residence and citizenship for children brought here illegally along with a guest-worker program, as part of granting visas to high-skilled immigrants educated at our universities.
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And I think that that principle of large-scale guest worker program seems like it's in conflict with our basic notion of a democratic republic made up of citizens.
Instituting a guest worker program--in which people would come for specific jobs for a specific period of time and then go home--would help enormously in alleviating a future influx of illegals.
"A guest worker program we can develop -- one that will work, I hope we can develop, " said Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colorado.
He called for enactment of a guest worker program to allow immigrants to take low-paying jobs, and he said employers must be held to account for hiring illegal immigrants.
Cunha wants Congress to pass the so-called Ag Jobs bill that would create a special guest worker program for agricultural workers.
And so I would say that for me, an additional factor would be the legal immigration of a guest worker program, not for people who have been to the country illegally already--unless they want to go home and come back.
Washington (CNN) -- Business and labor negotiators working to hammer out a deal on an immigrant guest worker program have reached broad agreement, a source familiar with the talks said Saturday, eliminating one major hurdle to legislation revamping the nation's immigration system.
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