Guest worker programs may be the best hope many of the world's poorest people have for improving their lives.

As the world gradually learns to locate Singapore on a map (it’s on the tip of the Malaysian Peninsula), Little India is expanding. The Ministry of Manpower says the construction industry will need between 40,000 and 50,000 more foreign workers if projects like the Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort are to rise from the page. When the visas are granted, these workers will add to a non-resident workforce of 670,000. That may not sound like much by the standards of the United States, where 670,000 doesn’t even capture the number of undocumented workers who cross the border in a single year. But Singapore is a city-state little larger, and far more densely populated, than the city of Chicago. Its growing foreign population is party to a radical experiment in labor mobility.

Two wrongs don't make a right. Turning business owners into criminals because the government can't muster the courage to address illegal immigration is no different than sending innocent people to prison for crimes they didn't commit. Political leaders on both sides of the aisle are rushing head first toward stronger enforcement against employers. It sounds good at first glance, except for one important fact: It punishes the wrong people.

The emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius wrote 2000 years ago, "How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it." It could well be said of today’s anger about illegal immigration, felt by people on both sides of our borders.

DENVER, Colo. -- Rep. Mike Pence yesterday announced plans to introduce a bill in the House of Representatives that would simultaneously secure America’s borders and establish a temporary worker program to help fill jobs in America.

DENVER, Colo. -- A new national poll released today by the Vernon K. Krieble Foundation shows an overwhelming majority of Americans believe controlling U.S. borders requires a better system for handling foreign guest workers