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Over ten million undocumented immigrants reside in the United States, living and working outside the law. Hiding from the authorities, they operate in the shadows of the economy. The Senate recently passed legislation that would provide millions of illegal immigrants with legal guest-worker status in order to bring them into the mainstream of American life and make them accountable to the law. The Senate bill, however, requires that any business hiring guest workers pay them "prevailing wages" set well above market rates.

Several older films featured at this year’s Berlinale film provided real insight into the plight of immigrants in the 1970s and 1980s.

U.S. immigration laws are not broken, they are not enforced. Illegal immigrants impose a great cost to the U.S. Congress is long overdue in making sure the Fourteenth Amendment is correctlyinterpreted and that employment eligibility verification andemployers fines for immigration violations are enforced.

Farmers who rely on foreign guestworkers can only expect more red tape from upcoming revisions to the H-2A visa program, according to agricultural labor experts.

The core labor-market engine powering the guest worker immigrationsystem should be based on free-market principles. Sponsorship isthe only option that will operate smoothly, fairly, and flexibly toserve U.S. policy goals and the U.S. economy by harnessing thepower of the market to finance, manage, and enforce a temporaryworker program.