Speech #930121067

In other words. they must come back with these conditions to us in order to have them reviewed. Third. my amendment requires the employer to notify the Attorney General and the alien when the employment is terminated. Such a provision would allow the appropriate government agency to terminate a visa when the employment is terminated. This is not provided in the instant bill. There are innumerable cases of aliens who enter as immigrants with labor certifications for approved employment who quit. and who move into the interior of the United States to take a job away from an American worker---one which would not have been approved by the Department of Labor. This amendment would. therefore. serve to protect both the U.S. employer and the U.S. worker. Fourth. my amendment requires that the alien present himself to the immigration authorities upon termination of his country. and it provides penalties for employment for return to his native failure to do so. This is not a provision in the instant bill. We must have some provision for him to return. Mr. Chairman. the amendment I have presented further stipulates that the conditions of employment must have been met on the previous H2 visa and must be agreed to for renewals of similar petitions by the same employer. If the employee. however. does not fulfill the terms provided by the Secretary of Labor. he does not remain in the employment of the employer for a period of 5 years. Mr. Chairman. I have lived on the border all my life and have given many years of serious study. along with other colleagues of mine from Texas and others in California. to the problems associated with and derived from domestic labor shortages and immigration laws which have been wrongly expanded and restricted in other areas in order to meet the shortage. That is why we have so many illegal aliens in this country. working in this country today. Mr. Chairman. I am most assuredly in favor of the concept reflected in the bill. I feel certain procedures and regulations must be included in the law to protect the American employer. the American worker. and the alien. The procedures called for in my amendment will mean that the employer can be better assured that the alien he hires will remain in his employment until the end of the desired term. that the alien can be better assured of fair working conditions. that the American worker cannot legally have his job taken away from him. and that deserving aliens who wish to live permanently in the United States will not have a "green carder" take up a slot in the quota system and thereby unnecessarily prolong their waiting period for admission.