Guest-worker programs are corporate welfare

Published November 22, 2011 5:00am ET



Newt Gingrich in tonight’s debate called for a “guest-worker” program for immigrants. This is the type of compromise our pundit and political class seem to like. Not coincidentally, big business likes it, too.

I think guest-worker programs amount to corporate welfare. I wrote during the 2007 immigration debate:

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