Chairman. I thank the gentlewoman from California. and I rise today in opposition to the legislation. First of all. let us get it straight. this is not about border protection. and it is not about antiterterrorism. If it was. we would be debating the bill that was voted out of Homeland Security. But instead. that bill has been hijacked and now is a vehicle used to promote ineffective and hypocritical socalled illegal immigration control. Let us start with the obvious. When it comes to the hiring of the undocumented worker. and that is simple: Demand will always determine supply. If you were serious about limiting the number of undocumented workers coming into this country. then significantly increase the fines levied against the employers. This bill does not do that. Make it as easy to criminalize the act of hiring as you do the act of entry into this country. this bill does not do that. Exclude employers that hire undocumented workers from government contracts and foreign subsidies and make sure that is a fact. this bill does not do that. Overall. we need to stop the hypocrisy. and we need to deal with the reality. It is the hypocrisy of failing to acknowledge that the undocumented worker comes to this country at our behest and that they make this economy work. We should be discussing the legal framework that addresses these realities. that encourages assimilation. becoming one people and one Nation. Fl 1800 I believe many supporters of this bill are concerned with the changing face of this country when what they are 51.
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