And I might say to the Members in this Chamber that over two or three times this body has adopted employer sanctions and successfully passed it. only to see it die in the other body. But in all of those instances. this body adopted legislation which did not have the second level of penalty. It only had penalties for knowingly hiring undocumented workers. We added this method. which the gentleman seeks to stiffen and strengthen. because of the concerns largely announced by the Hispanic community of the country. to say that without this level. without this new kind of penalty. the employer had the great opportunity of discriminating. because the employer could decide which person would be taken in and which persons would not be. accept or reject. perhaps based on the way the individual looked or sounded. Our bill says that if you are going to hire someone. you have to examine of that individual the same documentation. regardless of what the person looks like. what the person sounds like.
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