It dealt with collapsing from a meaningful verification program to a weak verification program. and that was taken out. and now we come back with a proposed draft. the rumors are. and it is more than rumors. The proposed conference committee document that has very kindly been shown to out side of the aisle before the conference indicates there will be no increase in wage and hour inspectors. If my colleagues want to get a handle on the issue of illegal immigration. putting all of the rhetoric aside. there are some key steps. At the border. meaningful verification. right now employer sanctions are a joke. and a systematic effort to take those industries and employers who systematically recruit and hire illegal immigrants because of their desire to violate wage and hour standards and take a very exploitable work force and utilize them in order to produce their product at below average scale and capture the market in that fashion. This bill goes along with the Clinton administrations effort to increase the border patrol. does a whole bunch of other things which in some cases are very incendiary. dilutes its initial attempts to provide meaningful verification. thereby rendering fairly ineffective. to my way of thinking. all of the efforts to deal with denial of employment or public benefits to illegal immigrants and strips away any serious increase in wage and hour supporters. wage and hour division inspectors. which could provide the kind of policing of those employers who want to hire illegal immigrants in order to exploit them in callous disregard of Federal law knowing that those people will never utilize the remedies available to them. So the motion to instruct is a very important one. The other larger question which I think the majority has to consider is do they want the bill?
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Employers systematically recruit and hire illegal immigrants because of their desire to violate wage and hour standards.