John Cornyn: “the bill in the Senate is a massive piece of legislation creating a number of new programs within our immigration…”

“the bill in the Senate is a massive piece of legislation creating a number of new programs within our immigration system. Obviously, we have talked a lot about border security and ways we can tighten our border to make sure we know who is coming into the country and why they are here. Second, we also need to make sure we have a successful worksite verification program to make sure people who present themselves for employment in the United States are, indeed, legally authorized to work in the United States. This is an enormously important comprehensive approach. While I hope it is clear that there are some segments of the approach I differ with and we are trying to improve, from my perspective, I do support the approach of comprehensive immigration reform because we need to deal with the security demands of this problem, and we also need to deal with the economic demands of the problem. One of the ways the underlying bill purports to do that is by creating what is called a guest worker program. One component of the guest worker program is as follows. For people who are not yet in the United States but who want to come in the future, this plan creates a guest worker program, but what it fails to do is to match up willing workers who want to qualify within this program with an actual job.…”