Speech #980210309

Speaker. were that it were so simple that because we have a serious problem and must find a solution. it follows automatically that we grant the rule. The fact is that once we grant that rule. those who are arguing the most for its passage are going to offer amendments which literally gut the tradeoffs that the authors sought to achieve in this proposal. It is not anomalous that a proposal which seeks to do something about the job displacement which supposedly comes from undocumented workers are also arguing for and pushing a guest worker program that will expand tenfold the ability of imported foreign workers to come in. undercut American labor. destroy the effort to unionize farmworkers and violate every basic labor standard that we have fought for over the years? Is it not interesting that the employer sanction program contains amendments which exclude any effective recordkeeping and ability to prove discrimination from a Congress which basks in the glory of fighting against discrimination in employment. and now enacts a policy which will encourage just that discrimination. I urge my colleagues to defeat the rule.