Despite this extensive analysis and debate. this bill. even with the nonJudiciary Committee amendments incorporated into it. remains essentially the same bill as the one approved by the House last Congress. as the one considered on the House floor in the 97th Congress. and. in fact. as the one approved by the Judiciary Committee way back in 1975. It is testimony. I think. to the reasonableness. the persuasiveness. and the urgency of the twin concepts of employer sanctions and legalization that despite the intense scrutiny given to the myriad immigration reform bills over these many years those twin concepts are still the cornerstones of the legislation we will be considering today. In my opinion. there can be no true reform of our immigration policy unless those conceptually interlinked concepts are enacted. and should this bill at any time fail to include an effective sanctions program and a generous legalization program I will withdraw my support and actively oppose the bills passage. The arguments in support of employer sanctions are well known and I will not repeat them now. The concept of employer sanctions. which I devised in 1971. has received the wholehearted support of the past five administrations and was overwhelmingly endorsed by the bipartisan Presidential Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy. Quite simply. until the magnet that draws people herejobsis removed. we will never be able to effectively control our borders. As I have said before.
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