Frankly. I wish that we did not have to legislate in this area. I wish that the Immigration and Naturalization Service were not taking such a tortured interpretation of current law such that they have ruled themselves not to have jurisdiction to act in this area. But in the absence of a more appropriate definition to preserve the Jobs of American longshore workers. this legislation definitely fills the bill and does the trick. We have here an expansion or really a clarification of the application of the employer sanction provisions of the law which were created in the Immigration Reform and Control Act of By this legislation we make clear that longshore work could be performed by American workers on foreign flag ships that come in and unload in our ports. and only if those workers are not available and the reciprocity provisions are applied in this case. should longshore work be performed by alien crewmen. Those alien crewmen will have to go through a certification process to ensure that they are only used when American workers are not available. The chairman of the committee has given us legislation that creates a regulatory structure that can be applied successfully and fundamentally protects American longshore workers from not being displaced improperly by foreign crewmen.
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