As a final comment. I think that the best indictment of this bill is a statement uttered in support of the bill. The Department of Justice. in testimony before the Judiciary Committee stated their support of this bill because it will prohibit the hiring of "illegal aliens who are often highly productive and willing to work for wages and under working conditions that are unattractive to American workers." In effect this is admitting what I have just emphasizedthat the illegal aliens are taking jobs which are unattractive to American workers. As I have pointed out. it is quite clear why these jobs are unattractive to American workersthe jobs do not pay a living wage. The solution. as presented in the Immigration and Nationality Act amendments. is to give these undesirable jobs back to Americans. What kind of solution is that? My stand is that we should not shift the undesirable jobs from aliens to Americans. as this bill would do. but that we should eliminate the undesirable jobs altogether by enacting legislation to provide respectable wages and respectable working conditions for all people.
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