I would like to make just one or two points in the course of my remarks. This bill is an effort to address itself to what I think everyone here concedes to be a problem. that is. the presence in this country of a large number of aliens who have either entered illegally and taken employment or who have entered legally. perhaps as a student or a visitor. and then have unlawfully taken employment. violating that status. This problem has become acute because of the unemployment situation in this country and because of the large number of these illegal aliens in the United States. The main thrust of the bill is to attempt to address Itself to this problem by for the first time placing sanctions on the man who knowingly employs an alien who is not legally entitled to that employment. That is a serious matter because you are putting a sanction on an American employer who is not necessarily one of these soulless corporations that we like to talk about.
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