I thank my colleague from California for yielding these 2 minutes to me. This is like Rasputin. immigration refuses to die. It comes up again and again and again. There is a great deal of frustration on this side in this Chamber. both for those who favor immigration and for those who are opposed to immigration. Just let me say one thing to the Committee on Rules: I would like them to know that I am appreciative that the sunset for sanctions has become part of this legislation. I also thank them for making certain that the Bureau of the Census is taken out of the provisions of the confidentiality of the upcoming census of 1990. will not be jeopardized by this legislation. I say that because I think there were two meaningful entries into the rule. Now. having said all of that. I want to make it very clear I think that the debate on immigration has to take place. I think it is essential. I think there are people in this Chamber who have consistently been criticized editorially. and groups. racial groups in this country criticized for saying that they are against immigration. We are not against immigration. we are against discrimination. It is back to employer sanctions where I lead myself. I want to make it very clear that sanctions as written into this bill will be detrimental to those people of color. those people who speak with an accent. I am going to vote for the rule because the debate must take place. but I am not going to vote for final passage of the immigration bill for those reasons. Now. having said that. I want to make it very clear that the employers who are watching this show today will end up being the judges and juries of people who come to their offices for employment.
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