The gentleman from California said that he is not creating an underclass. and that is true. In fact. the gentleman from California has quite courageously worked for 3 years on this fairly unpopular subject. to try and alleviateand I genuinely believe he has been moving in that directionthe plight of those people. But out of a combination of political necessityand I do not mean his personal political necessity. because anybody thinking about his personal political necessity would not mention the word "immigration"-but out of the floor management requirements of trying to get a bill through. I think we have an amendment which confounds the logic of the bill and. if adopted. will make the situation worse. if the whole bill is then adopted. for a lot of people who do not deserve to have that inflicted on them. because you will have a situation where sanctions will be in place. it will be illegal to hire people who enter here illegally but we will have people who have entered here since January 1. 1980. who will be subject to the sanctions. It cannot be in our interest to create so large a class of potentially desperate people.
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