Mr. Chairman. I am opposing the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments today because I do not believe that they offer even a partial solution to our unemployment problem. In all the comments I have heard and read. one essential point has been ignored. The point is this: This bill attempts only to shift the burden of undesirable and substandard jobs from the alien poor to the indigenous poor. In reality this bill makes illegal aliens the scapegoats for a problem which is not their doing. The real problem which we should be attacking is an employment situation where the jobs on the lowest end of the scale are so demeaning and financially unrewarding that not enough Americans are willing to take them. The illegal aliens are not replacing American labor. they are taking jobs which look good to them only in contrast to what they have come from. Let us look at some facts in this area. One of the jobs most frequently taken by female illegal aliens is that of a domestic household worker. Altogether there are over 1 million household workers in America. And how much do these women earn?
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