Timothy P. Carney: Immigration bill’s guest-worker program is corporate welfare

The immigration bill plodding across Capitol Hill this year is described as a compromise between many competing interests and constituencies. It certainly offers some pain and some gain for the causes of law and order, labor and immigrants.

But for big business, this bill is a big winner. The biggest complaint business has about the bill before the Senate last week — and the White House’s biggest complaint too — is that the guest-worker program is not even bigger.