They have lived for years by knowingly employing hundreds of thousands of illegal workers and now they have the audacity to insist that the price of this bill is to make it possible for them to bring in up to 350.000 illegal workers at any one time for a period of 3 years. and then the number that the Attorney General sets at the end of that 3year period. Think about it. This amendment is nothing more than putting into the law a system which is based upon massive flaunting of our immigration laws. only now the Congress of the United States is being called upon to make all of that legal. Listen to what the Secretary of Labor had to say recently. Said he: I must express strong concerns about the potential adverse effect that a new largescale flow of unskilled alien workers would have on our most disadvantaged workers. unskilled youths. especially blacks and Hispanics whose unemployment is a continuing cause of serious concern. Unemployment has been high In agriculture131/ percent in 1984. 14.3 percent currently. With the expanded temporary worker program. it will only go higher. Not only the Secretary of Labor has spoken to this suject. but there was a Select Commission on Immigration which reported to the Congress in 1981. It said at that time. "Most commissioners have concluded that the commission should not recommend the introduction of a largescale temporary worker program." At another point the commission stated. "The commission believes that any slight expansion in the number of temporary workers admitted should be within the existing H2 Program." This is no slight expansion. It is a massive one.
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