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...Simpson-Mazzoli is an intricate compromise, combining amnesty for many illegal immigrants already in the U.S. with a system of fines against employers who hire future evaders of the border patrols. The employer sanctions are supposed to dry up the supply of jobs for pollos. The bill has been attacked as both too soft and too tough, and denounced as "racist" by some Hispanic leaders. Indeed, its opponents span the ideological spectrum from Jesse Helms on the Republican right to Jesse Jackson on the Democratic left, and include both Walter Mondale and Gary Hart. Less political critics question whether Simpson...
Labor leaders and other backers of Simpson-Mazzoli often view the aliens as a rising menace to both the jobs and the pay of U.S. citizens. Says Roger Conner, director of the Washington-based Federation for American Immigration Reform: "I talked the other day to a Los Angeles contractor who told me he had just replaced a $20-an-hour American mason with an illegal $5-an-hour mason who is just as good. If nothing is done, wages for American workers will erode, and resentment among Americans will build dangerously...
...accents and, if challenged under civil rights laws, would claim they suspected that the applicants' documentation was phony. On a key vote last week, however, the House rejected, 304 to 120, an attempt by California Democrat Edward Roybal to strike employer fines from the bill. Backers of Simpson-Mazzoli did permit opponents to delete criminal penalties, including up to a year in jail, for employers who hire undocumented workers. But House leaders expect some form of criminal sanction to be restored in any bill that clears the Senate-House conference...
...that, dispassionate critics of Simpson-Mazzoli seriously doubt that its approach can work. Some employers, they suspect, would willingly pay fines in order to continue hiring cheap immigrant labor, and the aliens could easily buy forged identity documents. Eleven states already have legislated penalties against employers who hire illegal immigrants, with little or no effect. California has had such a law on its books since 1971, and it probably draws more pollos than any other state. Moreover, these critics say, even a limited amnesty would set a precedent that might lure still more aliens across the border in the hope...
...opponents of Simpson-Mazzoli, however, have been unable to offer any convincing alternative. Some contend that tighter enforcement of wage-and-hour laws in the U.S. and beefing up the INS border patrols could slow the tide of aliens. That seems unlikely; Cornelius, for one, believes that only "fullscale militarization" of the U.S.-Mexican border, a step that nobody advocates, could do the job. Others contend the real solution would be to build up the Mexican economy so that it could offer good jobs to those now crossing the border. But that is wishful thinking: American voters...