It will not become law. The current law. what is in the bill. provides amnesty to people who came in last December. I have talked about. and we have had hearings that I think demonstrate with absolute clarity. this incredibly large flow of immigration into America today is. in fact. depressing wages of American workers. Oh. yesterday. we had this great union debate that we are going to eliminate the secret ballot so people will be forced into unions. My Democratic colleagues had charts showing wages havent gone up in the last few years. And I am inclined to agree because that is what the experts told us on the immigration question. They told us that wages have not gone upnot because of some oppressive businessperson but because we have allowed millions of people to come into our country to take jobs at lower wages that Americans ought to be paid to do. Those are just the facts. Professor Borjas of Harvard. himself a Cuban immigrant. at the Kennedy Schooland I suggested Senator KENNEDY perhaps should walk over there to Harvard from his Boston home and talk to Professor Borjas. Professor Borjas concludes that for people in this country without certain education levels. their wages from 1980 to 2000 have been depressed 8.2 percent. Anecdotally.
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