Ah, The Monkey Wrench To Jam The Works

I've been waiting for this to come up. Illegal immigrants won't trust the government. Why should they? I'm a citizen and I don't.

Besides, once their guest-worker visa expires they have to return home. Then they have to worry they'll never get another guest-worker visa. Yeah, their gonna jump on this offer for sure. Especially if they've been here illegally for 10 years or so and know they can elude capture.

Martin Saucedo, an illegal immigrant from Michoacan, Mexico, would like to participate in a guest worker program like one Congress is considering as a part of sweeping immigration reform.

But he's worried whether a proposal to grant millions of illegal immigrants a path to citizenship is really just an effort to find and deport them.

"It's not a good idea. It won't give us what we need, to be able to come back," Saucedo said in Spanish during a break from clearing tree branches from power lines while working at a landscaping company.

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"Absolutely there is concern," said Kathleen Walker, vice president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. "'The government is your friend' is not the mantra of this area. ... For those who feel they have nothing in their home country and have lived underground for years, how is that an incentive for them to come forward?"

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Maria Robles, 55, an immigrant from Monterrey, Mexico, said in Spanish she is glad her permanent legal residency application has already been approved because she would be afraid to apply for it in the current political climate.

"Many times the government says one thing, but in the end they might want to just deport all the immigrants back to their countries," she said.

Maria's got that right.

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