While the INS is now increasing the number of workplace agents and resources directed toward the enforcement of employer sanctions. projections indicate that the INS will only employ. after these improvements are made. only employ about 708 workplace agents in 1996. Mr. President. 708 agents to cover a nation with 6.5 million employersthis contrasts sharply with the over 5.000 Border Patrol agents that the INS projects in 1996. This disparity is notable given that according to the INS own estimates. their own estimates. about half of all illegal immigrants do not cross the border illegally but overstay their visas. Let me repeat that: Half of all illegal immigrants in this country are not sneaking across the border in the middle of the night but they are people that come into this country on a visitors visa and overstay. They are people who come in on a visitors visa. then get a job illegally. They are here in the workplace taking jobs away from Americans. The law says an employer who hires an illegal immigrant who overstays on his visitors visa. for example. is subject to fine and possible imprisonment. Yet. nobody is going after these employers. There is not enough enforcement.
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