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BOB SMITH. who has yielded to me is taking this time. As he may know from our prior conversations. and because of my cosponsorship of this legislation. I am very interested in the question of immigration reform and in the mechanism that we utilize to get more effective control of our borders. I think that is a common goal that we both share. So I want to commend the gentleman for his initiative on the reform bill. H.R. 2267 does essentially four things. as I view it. It substantially increases the Immigration and Naturalization Service enforcement or border control with dollars. simply a cost that we are going to have to incur to get this job done correctly. It engages us in the pursuit of stricter employer sanctions on the civil side aimed at the employers who knowingly hire those undocumented workers. It absolutely foregoes the temptation of granting amnesty. which I think is an appropriate solution if other things can be worked into the legislation. And it contains H2 provisions. or guestworker provisions denying immediate relative status to certain individuals as well who would have violated our immigration laws internationally. I am proud to say that you and I are not alone. You have a number of cosponsors on this legislation. and in fact.