Justice Powell. in a concurring opinion in Delgado. agrees. There. he writes that while illegal workers are penalized "our law irrationally continues to permit U.S. employers to hire them. Many employers actively recruit lowpaid illegal immigrant labor. encouragingwith Government toleranceillegal entry into the United States. This incongruity in our immigration statutes is not calculated to increase respect for the rule of law." Mr. Speaker. Congress has before it the vehicle to solve that incongruity. H.R. 1510. the Immigration Reform and Control Act would properly balance the legal burdens of enforcing the Nations immigration laws by penalizing those employers who knowingly hire undocumented workers as well as the undocumented alien. These employers hurt American labor just as much as the illegal workers do. Employer sanctions such as those contained in H.R. 1510 would balance the solution to our current immigration problems. Any reform that does not include employer sanctions is no reform at all. Mr.
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