It will make it easier for employers to hire illegal workers. The conference report does not include the Senate provision that would have increased penalties for employers who knowingly hire illegal workers. Now. that is significant. because each year more than 100.000 foreign workers enter the work force by overstaying their visas. Many are hired in illegal sweatshops. in violation of minimum wage laws. And we have seen what the Labor Department has unveiled in this regard over the last couple of years: Sweatshops all over this country with illegal people who are working in these sweatshops and no crackdown on the employers.