Unscrupulous employers would be given greater latitude to discriminate against or exploit legal U.S. residents. This bill is as bad for what it does not do as for what it does. For the past 20 years. the taxpayers of my State and my county have been paying billions of dollars to cover the health care. education. housing. and other costs necessitated by the failures of U.S. immigration policy. Simple fairness should dictate that the Federal Government would pick up the costs of the failures of its own policies. Instead. the Federal Government abdicated its responsibilities and left our local taxpayers to pick up the bill. The bill is silent on this problem and does nothing to help us with these costs. The immigration reform conference report is the result of last minute partisan political maneuvering. rather than thoughtful. dispassionate consideration of policy. In the words of the American Bar Association. this bill "abandons the U.S. commitment to the protection of refugees seeking asylum. threatens basic safeguards of due process. eliminates the historic role for the judiciary in reviewing the implementation of the immigration laws * * * and requires the deportation of legal immigrants who receive assistance for which they qualify."
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