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However. the magnitude of the problem only compounds the seriousness of this "special interest" policy. Whether by accident or design. the article in the Washington Post directly above the story on Mr. Civilettis illegal alien policy carried the headline that "15.000 Apply for 70 Federal jobs in Baltimore." At a time when millions of Americans are out of work and are fighting for the few new jobs that are available. the chief law enforcement officer of the United States is pursuing a policy which makes it easier for mil!!ons of illegal aliens to take and keep jobs in this country. One of the few things experts in the area of illegal aliens agree on is that illegal aliens come to the United States primarily for one reasonjobs. Yet. where is the concern for the unemployed American at the Department of Justice? It apparently does not exist. Before taking any further steps to curtail the enforcement of immigration against illegal aliens. I recommend that Mr. Civiletti educate himself a little more about the unemployment problem in this country. It might impress upon him more his responsibility to protect the rights of legal residents and citizens. In fact. the Attorney General should take time to read the reports of his own investigators in INS which show that illegal aliens in many cases are earning above $7.50 per hour in every type of industry in this country. The article states that "Civiletti has been especially concerned with the Nations Hispanic community. which is particularly sensitive to the illegal alien issue." While I agree that the Attorney General should be concerned about the rights of every minority group in this country. he should not let this blind him to the responsibility which he owes to all Americans. particularly those unemployed. In order to demonstrate his concern about the Hispanic interest. the Attorney General has created a special advisory committee and a position for a special assistant. Perhaps Mr. Civiletti should demonstrate as much concern for the vast majority of Americans who want something done about the illegal alien problem. I am certain that he could find more than enough citizens to serve on such an advisory committee from the 91 percent who now say that they want an allout effort made to control the illegal alien problem. Or. he could help our unemployed problem by creating a position for special adviser on unemployed Americans. The Attorney Generals moratorium on the enforcement of our immigration laws was originally instituted in order to assist the Bureau of the Census in its efforts to count the millions of illegal aliens in the 1980 census. However. there has never been a valid explanation for the extension of this order on his own initiative after the census was taken. In fact. the Census Bureau made no official request for this extension. Why did the Attorney General extend an order which had only one possible purposeto protect illegal aliens from detection and deportation? The answer to this question is as unfathomable as his decision to go into Federal court and defend the right of illegal aliens to be represented in the U.S. House of Representatives. When the U.S. Bureau of the Census decided that the millions of illegal aliens should be counted in the 1980 census and included in the reapportionment base. the Department of Justice immediately came forward without hesitation to defend this demunition of political representation of U.S. citizens. Since the number of representatives is fixed. the net effect of this decision is to shift more political clout to those areas that have large concentrations of illegal aliens. Those areas that do not have these large numbers are of course the losers. However. the Department of Justice was not content to argue that illegal aliens should be included in the reapportionment figures. Instead they went further than the issue at hand and argued that illegal aliens also could be given the right to vote. I cannot imagine anything so unreasonable than to argue that a person who has no legal right to be in this country has a right to vote. Yet. this is the position taken by the Department of Justice. Mr. President. at a time when the American people are demanding stronger immigration laws and an allout effort to control illegal aliens. the U.S. Department of Justice is doing everything in Its power to keep from enforcing the immigration laws we already have on the books. In essence. the chief law enforcement agency of the United States is standing idly by while illegal aliens pour across our borders to take jobs and political representation from our citizens. If the Department of Justice cannot be relied upon to protect citizens from this Invasion. I think that it is time that some of the policymakers at the Department take a closer look at the growing unemployment lines in this country.