Rent Boy, like Wonks Anonymous a regular denizen of the comment threads of the NY Times, offers an extensive comment on Wonks Anonymous modest proposal on immigration:

This is a kooky idea. It would work but the country would suffer a beating in international diplomacy and human rights concerns. It would be like legalizing human trafficking. Terrorists and Criminal elements would gain the system and loan the money to potential immigrant with onerous interest rate they would never be able to pay back. And it would be legal. The immigrant families would suffer all because of the approval of the US for the trade traffic.

While under the current system no one ever charges immigrants to cross the border and they never take out massive loans to make it across the border. Also human traffickers never smuggle unfortunate women into the country to live as prostitutes.

Which leads Wonks Anonymous to conclude that Rent Boy is not only reality challenged but also reading deficient. In Wonks Anonymous proposal the immigrant owns the green card and she or he is free to walk away with it at any time. To keep human trafficking at a minimum Wonks Anonymous would add an entry interview for every green card holder. Interviewers would be trained and have at hand referral resources for people, particularly women, who seemed to be going into exploitative situations.

Excuse me miss but you appear to have been lured into the US under false pretenses. You can cash in that green card for a trip back to your native land or you can talk to Ms Dworkin here in the next room.

Instead Rent Boy would have us set up five immigration courts that Wonks Anonymous imagines would work 24/7 to process all the illegals that someone - we don't know who but someone - was catching. In addition we would throw criminal immigrants in jail. Because California isn't spending most of its money supporting prison guards already.

Meanwhile we do need more guest workers because businesses always need people who they can dump at will. Which will protect less skilled US citizens how?

At the same time we would need to cut social insurance to finance our immigration reforms.

Those kooky economists.