Mr. President. I am pleased to join Senator HATCH in this effort to repeal the employer sanctions in our immigration laws. The General Accounting Office. as well as many other organizations. found that the sanctions have led to widespread discrimination. and they ought to be repealed. The GAO report confirmed what many of us In Congress feared when the sanctions were first enactedthat they were inherently unfair to HispanicAmerican citizens. AsianAmerican citizens. and other ethnic minoritiesand that they would be difficult to enforce in a way that avoided discrimination. According to the GAO. large numbers of employers have engaged in such discrimination. and thousands of American workers and other legal residents have been denied the ability to earn a living.
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