Session #109 · 2005–07

Speech #1090100409

They go off scotfree. This amendment gives them a safe harbor. This is the employers way of dealing with your effort to try to deal with illegal immigration. weaken and undermine the whole structure of a comprehensive system. Now. everyone knows that I do not like the bill because it is not comprehensive. but the way to make this bill right is not to go and do the employers work in getting them out of the problem. That was our flaw in 1986. Employer sanctions were a joke. If this amendment passes. employer sanctions are once again a joke. And you will be back here in 20 years with millions of more undocumented workers brought in by employers who have no accountability. And the third part is you put caps on the maximum penalties. The exploitation and money that could be made by hiring people who are afraid to complain. who are willing to work at very low wages and maybe under the minimum wages of our own laws and of the States they are working In. and you now cap the penalties.
Keywords matched
undocumented illegal immigration

Classification

Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
HOWARD BERMAN
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
CA
Gender
M
Date
2005-12-16
Speech ID
1090100409
Paragraph
#1
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