One of the values of the Panetta amendment is that it does allow for this possibility. It has. of course. compensating problems that need to be corrected. But in order to legislate in a constructive and knowledgeable way. we should understand the subject matter that we are dealing with. and one of the flaws in this bill is that it does not accurately reflect. particularly in this area of farm labor. a full understanding of the factual situation with regard to either the employer or the migrant laborers. these socalled illegals who come to this country and make such an important contribution to the welfare of our economy. I have taken the floor in order to point this out and to express the hope that we would do a better job of trying to understand these facts. Mexico spends 10 times as much trying to understand this immigration problem as we do and we are a Nation of 225 million people with tremendous scientific resources and they are a poor impoverished country that sometimes does not know where their next dollar is coming from. Yet they have devoted tens of millions of dollars to try to understand this phenomenon and we do not even go to the trouble of learning what they have learned about the root causes of this problem and how to correct them. That is the fundamental flaw in this bill.
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