Speech #920254318

I should like to point to one other problem that not many Members of the Senate may be aware of. that on the borders. on border towns such as Yuma. Mexicali. along the Mexican border. there are issued what we call green cards. This allows a Mexican national officially to move into the United States at a certain time each morning to work for an American company and return across the border into Mexico at a certain time. That worker is not a naturalized citizen of the United States. Nevertheless. he is legally allowed to work in the United States. I can see all kinds of havoc being wrought by the language in the present bill which. in my opinion. would make the hiring of a green card user illegal and make the employer responsible and subject to penalties. I might say that without the green card labor from Mexico. many businesses along the American border could not exist because we do not have sufficient labor of that kind along the borders to provide enough for the businesses there. It is getting so bad. in fact. that American businesses are building factories across the border in Mexico just to insure that they can get the kind of labor and the abundant labor pool they need to conduct their business. So I wanted to mention this one fact which would add to the chaos that this bill would create with the language in it.