But I have to tell you. there are lots of people behind this bill for whom it is all about the money. It is all about the profit. If we want to stop illegal immigration in this country. we have to get serious about the magnet that is drawing it to our country. and that is we look the other way when people hire illegal immigrants. Until we stop looking the other way from those businesses that are not playing by the rules. we will never effectively deal with immigration in this country. I have an amendment that would also bar for a minimum of five years any company that is found to hire illegal immigrants from participating in Federal contracts. I hope that will become part of this legislation. Mr. President. I know there have been enforcement measures added to this bill that would increase the fines and jail time for employers who repeatedly. willfully hire illegal immigrants. But. frankly. 6 months is plenty if this Administration would only enforce current law. If you put an owner of a business in jail for 6 months in a Federal penitentiary for hiring illegal immigrants and let that word go out across America. you will do more to clean up this problem without spending another dime of the taxpayers money than anything else we can do. If this President is serious about illegal immigration in this country. I suggest he call his Attorney General and he say to his Attorney Generalwe know they have been given instructions. we have heard about it in the Judiciary Committeetell this Attorney General that we want employers who are hiring illegal immigrants by the hundreds in this country to be prosecuted under the law and to spend some time in jail. That would get to the bottom of the problem. Mr.
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