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University of Pennsylvania Law School Penn Law: L egal Scholarship Repository Faculty Scholarship 2002 Liberal Ideals and Political Feasibility: Guest- Worker Programs as Second-Best Policies Howard F. Chang University of P ennsylvania Law School, hchang@ Follow this and additional works at : /faculty_scholarship Part of the Ethics and Political Philosophy Commons, Immigration Law Commons, International Economics Commons, J urisprudence Commons, Labor Economics Commons, Law and Society Commons, Legal Studies Commons, Social Welfare Commons, Social Welfare Law Commons, and the Work, Economy and Organizations Commons Recommended Citation Chang, Howard F., Liberal Ideals and Political Feasi ility: Guest-Worker Programs as Second-Best Policies (2002). Faculty Scholarship. Paper 1271. /faculty_scholarship/1271 This Article is brought to you for free and open access y Penn Law : Legal Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Scholarship y an authorized administrator of Penn Law : Legal Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact PennlawIR@. Liberal Ideals and Political Feasibility: Guest-Worker Programs as Second-Best Policies H award F Chang A liberalized guest-worker program appeared to be a priority on the political agenda while President George W. Bush weighed 1 proposals to expand access to employment -based visas until terrorist attacks placed these plans on hold. Support from both labor unions and business interests may make liberalizing reforms politically feasible in the near future,3 as the Bush administration, with the support of Democrats in Congress, has recently resumed negoti