Temporary Work Visas -- A Modest Proposal

There's a lot of bluster in the media regarding immigration "reform", whether one operates from Ron Paul's "lets make only US-born children of citizens automatic citizens" approach (absolute anathema to the La Raza racists), or from La Raza's "borders are inherently racist" belief (I think we all know where I stand on that one). One thing that keeps getting offered as a compromize position is the ability to have temporary workers come into the country. Temporary workers are a mixed bag, economically -- US Companies can exploit income inequities between the US & Mexico in their perennial drive to minimize costs: this results in cheaper goods for US consumers and a total dearth of low-end jobs that pay enough to let anyone climb out of poverty. Let's just say for purposes of argument that temporary workers are a good idea, even if only as an optimization or compromize position. The next big question becomes: how to ensure that temporary workers are really temporary? Why won't they just stay in-country? If Visa-allocation works anything like most programs do today, then a temporary work-visa is dead on arrival: there's nothing to keep workers from staying.

However, (drum roll, please)

The temporary work Visa (workable version):

• Temporary work Visas are issued by US'ian embassies in the countries of origin of the candidate workers, with full attention paid to criminal history, &c. .
• Temporary Work Visas each carry a unique, trackable ID number, distinct from Social Security Numbers or other IDs.
• Candidate workers, upon receipt of their Visa, may back and forth to the US freely just as any legally resident alien may do.
• Once the Visa is expired, there is a fixed period of time during which the worker must register at the US'ian embassy in his/her own country, in person. This deallocates the Visa ID#, allowing it to be re-issued to another worker. (like checking in a library book)
• At any point of time, only a fixed number of Temporary Visa IDs are allowed to exist; if a worker fails to re-appear at the US'ian embassy, the temporary Visa is not re-established.
• If the worker fails to de-register at the US'ian embassy, an ICE arrest warrant is automatically issued for the offender.
• If an offending temporary worker if forcibly removed to his/her country of origin, the temporary Visa ID is once again made available for use by other workers.
• To incent desired behavior on the part of temporary workers, workers who have already completed used temporary Visas without incident receive added priority for re-issue of another temporary Visa.
• US'ian embassies will routinely publish lists of temporary workers holding up Visas that could be issued to their fellow citizens in the foreign country.
• Visas are re-issued should the temporary worker die while in the US, &c.
  

If we were to follow this program, then we gain three benefits:

1. If temporary workers attempt to use the program for illicit entry into the US on a permanent basis, the system automatically corrects for their presence, affecting the offending workers' countries of origin without penalizing others.
2. It would allow the actual population of foreign workers to be directly managed, rather than attempting to manage a "rate of infow"-type metric with "Visas per year" as we have now.
3. By killing off a mechanism for illicit "sneak in the back door" immigration, it would allow the US to welcome more immigrants in through the "front door" with full support, dignity, &c.