Speech #920282754

I believe they have not been admitted. but I think if we adopt this amendment side by side in this bill. we are assuring that the American public. especially the people in the Southwest. knowing that they are going to have penalties against them. have an alternative. We have to go back to our people and tell them. "All right. we have a bill before our Congress saying that if you hire an illegal alien and for some reason the evidence shows that you knew he was an illegal alien. for whatever desperate purpose you have. then you are susceptible to the warning and thereafter you are susceptible to fines and penalties. even imprisonment and jail." How can we sell that to the people if we do not give them an easy alternative? That is what I am suggesting in this particular amendmentgive them an alternative that will insure that we are not going to have a permanent person in our society drawing welfare and competing in the labor market. I say give them a year at a time under the control of the Secretary of Labor.