Speech #920283026

Mr. Chairman. I would like to point out In concluding that increasing the number of border patrol agents is no solution. We have more than 3.500 already. They did report 420.000 people last year but they only skimmed the surface. More Immigration Service staff is not the answer. however. We need the active. dedicated cooperation of the employer. Illegal aliens are also subject to exploitation and abuse. For example. at two plants in Los Angeles employees were questioned by immigration officials and 53 deportable aliens were discovered. Allegations that a number of employees at one of these plants had paid supervisors amounts ranging from $350 to $750 to obtain their jobs were investigated by the district attorney. It was not possible to obtain legally admissible evidence to prove those allegations. and it appears thateven if it was truethere is little that could be done other than to prosecute them for operating an employment agency without a license. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that the illegal alien would be willing to pay that kind of money for a jobat so much a week on paydayalthough I doubt if many of them could get It together in cash at one time. Under normal circumstances. a Mexican laborer earns the equivalent of $2 for a full days work in Mexico. but in an unskilled job in this country. he can earn between $10 and $15 a day. The jobs they take are unskilled work.