MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (KCBS)  -- President Bush's plan for immigration reform is not going over well with many illegal immigrants living here in the Bay Area, and the Governor has problems with it as well.

At the Day Labor Center in Mountain View President Bush's speech was all the talk Tuesday among illegal immigrants looking for jobs. By far the least popular plan was stationing six-thousand National Guard troops along the Mexican Border to help catch illegals.

"We are talking about humans, and they're putting [what is] like a trap, like a rat," Maria Maroquin, the director of the center, told KCBS Reporter Matt Bigler. She says increased border security will slow down the flow of immigrants, but it will never stop it.

"This action, I believe, won't be successful," Maroquin said. "Because the people are hungry, and the people have families, and they need to come here.

"If you put more walls, if you put more army there, the real truth is there will be more risk" in trying to cross the desert in even more remote locations, she said.

This man who crossed illegally into California from Tijuana, Mexico, told KCBS's Bigler that in the future, crossing illegally will be "harder for some people. But I am glad I'm here now, and I love this country very much."

In the same vein, the President's guest-worker program was also not well received. This illegal immigrant told KCBS recently that unlike amnesty, guest worker programs only solve part of the problem.

"I think it's a good start, but that only hel[s the people that are outside. What are we going to do with the people inside?"

He also said they don't want top constantly be going back and forth between countries. "We can't just leave our two bedroom apartment and the car we drive illegally, we just can't leave it," he said. "We're better off the way we're doing it, risking it every day, getting sent back."

Governor Schwarzenegger, meanwhile, also does not think much of the President's plans to beef up the border.

"It is extremely important that the federal government does everything that they can in order to secure the borders," Schwarzenegger said.  "And I've been consistent in saying that because it is embarassing that the federal government, and it's disastrous that the federal government has not really done that, to fulfill the obligations, the most basic obligation to secure the borders and to keep us protected."

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Schwarzenegger says he believes putting National Guard troops on the border is little more than a band-aid solution to a complex problem.

He adds that he wants a guarantee that the forces will only be used for two years, as outlined in the President's plan.