The point I am trying to get at is that the undocumented workers in the country number. depending on whose figures you listen to. anywhere from 5 million to 15 million. A very small percentage of themthe Senator has said himself. and I believe we all agreeactually work in American agriculture. The threat to organized labor and industrial Jobs and manufacturing Jobs. the fear you always hear from organized labor does not take place with respect to the perishable commodities in the Wilson amendment. I believe the Wilson amendment would make what the Senator from Wyoming is trying to do more workable. If you get that one section taken care of so that it is. so to speak. out of the closet. then the segments of industry where illegal immigration is really a problem will come to the surface where people can see it. It will be easier to isolate the problem. I said this in the debate the last time. If you go into most any restaurant in the major metropolitan area of Washington. DC. and go back in the kitchen and pull your Senate card out and yell. "Immigration." probably half of the people working in the restaurant are going to run for the door. I think we are being unrealistic here. To put the farmers in the situation. as Senator MCCLURE has pointed out. where they have to make a choice of losing their farms or hiring people who are available to work is unacceptable.
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Generalization about undocumented workers in restaurants fleeing at the mention of immigration.