Speech #940114729

We must also be willing to take away employer incentives to hire this source of cheap labor. Third. Congress must give such administrative agencies as the Immigration and Naturalization Service the funding required to enforce present laws and those we anticipate enacting. The Immigration and Naturalization Service estimates that at least one million jobs would become available to American citizens within a year if immigration enforcement were improved. These jobs divide nearly equally between agricultural. industrial and service occupations. thereby crushing the myth that illegals hold only jobs which Americans would refuse. In Los Angeles. 50 percent of the apprehended aliens held jobs in heavy construction and were earning $4.50 to $6.50 per hour.