Speech #980211578

Mr. Chairman. my amendment goes to the question of how broadly the paperwork burden should be imposed on businesses across the land. As the bill presently reads. the paperwork burden is not imposed on any employer of four or more employees until after there has first been a finding by the Attorney General of hiring of an illegal alien. Now. this has been presented presumably so that those who have not been engaged in the employment of illegal aliens will not be bothered by the paperwork burden. But in my judgment it goes in the wrong direction because. as one veteran officer of the border patrol said. "the limited verification"-referring to this section of the bill-"would give us another game of tortoise and hare. Only this time instead of playing the game mainly in the border States. we are going to have to play across the United States." What I have done is ask to be brought to the floor a copy of the simple document. the paperwork burden. that will be imposed on the employer so that Members might look at it. It is a simple twosided sheet which requires you at the time an employee comes before you to ask them to show two out of five types of documents which we articulate. and all that is done is a review of those documents. and information off of them is entered into the document.