The amendment before us now drops the limitation on agriculture and sets up a massive guest worker program for potentially all employers. The twotiered system becomes nothing more than a Governmentsponsored. officially sanctioned method of utilizing temporary guest workers. That is. those workers who have chosen to apply for temporary status. those undocumented workers who came here between January 1. 1977 and 1980. subject to filing once again with the INS an application for permanent resident status. knowing that they have to demonstrate a good employment record. knowing they have to demonstrate evidence of a continuous residency and knowing that they are vulnerable to whatever the wishes might be of an arbitrary or capricious employer who knows that he has those people over the barrel. There is little chance that this is going to be a legalization program that is going to give confidence to the undocumented workers to come forth. to come out of the underworld that they live in. hold themselves out to the potential for deportation. such a conclusion is a farfetched stretch of the imagination. The fact is that the gentleman from California. the ranking minority member of the subcommittee. described his amendment as a middle approach. It is not the middle approach.
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