Let me just mention a few of these measures here this afternoon. Mr. President. the first of these measures will be on looking at the overall legislation. what we are doing about the illegal immigration. First. if we are to make headway In the controlling of illegal immigration. we need to find new and better ways to help employers determine who is authorized to work in the United States and who is not. We must shut off the job magnet by denying jobs to illegal immigrants. As the late Barbara Jordan reminded us. we are a country of laws. and for immigration policy to make sense. it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law and those who violate it. Illegal immigration takes away the Jobs and lowers the wages of working American families on the lowest rung of the economic ladder. Make no mistake about it: That is happening today in many of our communities. our major cities. in a number of different geographical areas around the country today. The illegal immigrants that come in. unskilled and untrained. are exploited on the one hand and are used by unethical employers in so many different instances. This has the effect of driving wages down for real working Americans and also displacing the jobs for real Americans who want to work and provide for their families. These are the working families in America that survive from paycheck to paycheck and can least afford to lose their jobs to illegal aliens. Senator SIMPSON and I agree on this issue. We urge our colleagues to support provisions in the bill to require pilot programs to improve verification of employment eligibility.
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Illegal immigrants are unskilled and untrained, exploited, and drive down wages for Americans.