Mr. Speaker. as you are well aware. a majority of the Hispanic caucus. of which I am a member. have endorsed H.R. 4940. a bill introduced by my colleague Congressman ROYBAL. aimed at immigration reform. The Roybal bill differs from the SimpsonMazzoli bill in that it does not adopt employer sanctions. Instead the Roybal bill relies on a comprehensive enforcement of current labor laws as a primary method for stopping illegal immigration. As a member of the Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities. I am very concerned with the negative impact of employer sanctions. Employ2r sanctions not only are discriminatory against "foreign looking" people. but they are also burdensome for businesses in that additional records on workers documentation would have to be kept. This requires additional enforcement machinery to be set up the the Department of Labor and additional recordkeeping machinery to be set up by businesses. some of which do not have the resources to do so. The National Council of La Raza has written a policy analysis on the effectiveness of labor law enforcement in deterring illegal immigration. It raises serious questions about employer sanctions and I would like to insert it for the record. The analysis follows:
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Foreign looking people are discriminated against.