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President Bush Proposes Guest-Worker Program for Undocumented Immigrants.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 2004

By Wayne Washington, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jan. 8--WASHINGTON -- President Bush proposed yesterday a new guest-worker program, which he said would bring millions of often-mistreated undocumented workers out of the shadows and into legal status as recognized contributors to the US economy.

Speaking in the East Room of the White House before an audience that included congressional Republicans and advocates for issues affecting Latinos, the president outlined a program his aides first described in detail Tuesday night. If Congress approves the plan Bush described, the estimated 8 million undocumented workers in the United States could apply to participate in a guest-worker program to fill jobs employers can't get US...

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