He endorsed a "humane guest-worker program that rejects amnesty" -- not a plan based on amnesty.
And we must have a rational, humane guest-worker program that rejects amnesty, allows temporary jobs for people who seek them legally and reduces smuggling and crime at the border.
In "The Bitter Tea of General Yen" (1933), a warlord on the make casually orders the execution of his captives, then justifies it to his comely American guest as a more humane solution than letting them die of starvation in prison.
The guests were exciting (André 3000, Earl Sweatshirt); the humane, Raymond Carver-ish quality of Pyramids was not a one-off.
So another humane practical law that could be enacted would be a guest worker program.
"The White House has said all along that the president has made no decisions about the exact groups that may be liable for more humane and legal treatment as a part of an expanded or improved guest-worker program," the White House spokesman Ari Fleischer told reporters after Mr. Bush's remarks.
His house guest is Nadia, a Yale politics professor, former war correspondent and advocate of "humane intervention" who is dating Oliver's son.
"Magnanimous and humane".
