In many border communities where unemployment among American citizens is high. alien commuters having the same occupational skills as the unemployed Americans do have jobs. Enactment of this bill would in no way injure the relationship between the United States and Canada or Mexico. but would merely impose reasonable safeguards to protect our citizens and residents. In addition to regulating commuter traffic. the bill would remove a provision in the Immigration and Nationality Act that exempts from criminal sanctions individuals who willfully and knowingly employ aliens who have entered the United States illegally. This is necessary since the number of immigrants illegally entering the United States from Mexico is rapidly rising. Many employers lure prospective agricultural and factory workers into the United States to obtain Inexpensive labor. criminal sanctions against such employers would help stop the high number of illegal. entrants. In my judgment. this bill would help bring an end to the system which forces domestic workers to compete for wages with workers living in a much lower cost economy and which sometimes provides agricultural producers faced by strikes with workers. thus stifling the organizing and collectivebargaining efforts of the American farmworker.
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