So there is no way to determine whether the individuals who are selfpetitioning. under this proposal by the Senator from Massachusetts. are actually going to be working. No. 2. if they are working. there is no protection for American workersfirst. that the Secretary of Labor certify that there were no sufficient U.S. workers willing. able. and qualified to perform those jobs. If the proponents of this bill are serious when they say that certain provisions are needed because immigrants will do work that Americans wont do. then they should support the amendment agreed to yesterday and vote against the amendment that has been proposed this morning. President Bush. again. has said the concept of a temporary worker program is to provide additional legal workforce for jobs that there are not enough Americans to perform. Yet this proposed amendment simply sidesteps that requirement entirely. It further represents a shell game insofar as it would only require those workers in this country during an initial 4year period to work about 6 days a year in order to obtain a green card. This is about truth in advertising. If. in fact. the bill is going to represent something even close to what we have been told the purpose of it is. as represented. we need to make sure the actual language of the bill conforms to that and not pull a fast one on the American people by taking away the very protection for American workers that the proponents of this bill have said are an important part of their legislation.
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