Oregon. Washington. That has worked to the detriment of the domestic worker and has opened up this vast Pandoras box of the undocumented. I agree 100 percent with what has been said here that there seems to be a certain degree of hypocrisy. I agree with that. because the basic legislation that is in the books now. the proposal that we are having to deal with. forces us into some very uncomfortable and perhaps undesirable amendments. but we have to consider these in order to protect our workers and our industries. The American consumer is the best fed in the world and gets the best quality food in the world for a lesser amount of disposable income than any other people in the world. It concerns me tremendously that the whole context of the discussion earlier today was about the unscrupulous employers who exploit. They speak as if every undocumented is exploited. No so. It is the exception. not the rule. As I travel throughout the country. I see in our culture that the employer is the godfather of the little baby of the undocumented who hails from Guanajuato or some other- part of Mexico. Central. or South America. These workers develop a familylike relationship.
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Generalization that employers are like godfathers to undocumented workers and that exploitation is the exception, not the rule.