I know the committee has tried hard to eliminate the risk and fear of a legislative and administrative process leading to national identity cards or internal passports. This bill is free of imminent danger in that regard. but it is a first step in that direction. I remain deeply concerned that because I continue to believe that the procedures in this bill will not work. cannot work. and will not solve our immigration problems. Congress will come back and take the next step. and the next. until the threat that the Senator from Oregon and I. and others. fear the mostinterference with the personal freedom of our citizens to work and travel freely in our society. will materialize. The use of employer sanctions as a vehicle to enforce immigration laws is the critical first step. I hope that the step will never be taken. The "discretionary" employer sanctions in this bill will inevitably invite employment discrimination. but they will not be effective to deter illegal immigration. Those employers who depend on them will not. under the sanctions in this bill. stop hiring them. Employers will be burdened. but the sanctions are not strict enough to be effective.
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