Speech #970225601

I rise to oppose the amendment by the Senator from Texas. This amendment would essentially render useless the employer sanction provision in the bill. The Wall Street Journal in its editorial yesterday called this provision a real headache. that strict employer sanctions will not remove the incentive for illegal immigration. that they will cause disruption in the workplace. These types of arguments are real copouts. Those who oppose employer sanctions admit that illegal immigration may be a problem but nowhere do they offer another solution. They claim the incentives for illegal immigration will not be curbed by employer sanctions. If those do not. what will? Do not illegal aliens come to this country to work? Our border with Mexico stretches for 2.000 miles. short of building a wall there is really no other solution to this problem. It is important to remember that over half of the illegal population is Mexican.