We believe those people who are against SimpsonMazzoli. and especially against the sanction portion of that bill. and we state that the biggest reason is that it will cause discrimination. I think what the gentleman from Texas is offering is a way to verify the legal right to work without discrimination. and it removes the onus from the employer. What this SimpsonMazzoli bill and the sanctions do is make immigration officers out of employers when there are agencies that have not done their job. Social security is one of them. Social security law right now requires that the only person who is eligible for employment in the United States is a person who has a social security card. and that person has to be the legal resident or a citizen of this country. and yet the INS has told me personally that as many as 40 people are using one number. I understand the civil rights apprehension. and I would have those apprehensions. too. except that we already do have in effect the closest thing to a national ID card that we should ever have. and that is social security. I challenge anybody to open a bank account without having a social security number. But the most important part of this is that it does take the onus off the employer and does not make them immigration officers. and it does allow them to verify whether that person is legal for employment or not in accordance with the requirement that only a legal resident or citizen of this country should have a social security card. There are a lot of reasons why I am against the sanctions. because I really do not believe that we have done as much as we could to enforce laws that exist on the books. either labor laws or the social security law. Let me tell my colleagues: Anybody who believes that sanctions are going to do away with people crossing the border is not living in the real world.
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