Word: roybal
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...Garcia, Roybal, and others must also monitor carefully the Simpson-Mazzoli bill. If they can demonstrate its harmful effects and lack of solvency, they may be able to muster the votes to alter the legislation. The last significant changes in immigration policy were made 19 years ago, when there was no Hispanic voice in the process...
...arrived here before 1982. In addition, a national commission will be appointed to study the impact of factors such as Third World poverty and the agriculture industry's dependence on undocumented workers on the immigration dilemma. This was originally part of an alternative bill sponsored by Edward R. Roybal (D-Calif.), designed to examine possible long-term and international solutions...
...employers would refuse to hire any workers with Spanish surnames or 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...
...they fear deportation. Employers, therefore, get away with violations of laws ranging from the minimum wage to OSHA regulations in the workplace. A 1979 GAO study showed that overtime violations by business resulted in $11.2 million in underpayments. Savings of this magnitude make hiring illegal aliens worth the risk. Roybal's critics argue that, although such violations exist, they are impossible to prosecute. They point to a similar DOL attempt in 1977 which failed to lead to major reforms...
...Roybal's bill will not solve America's immigration problem. It would, however, set immigration reform in a new direction, without the serious threats to civil rights of Hispanic Americans and Mexicans the Simpson-Mazzoli proposal represent Rep. Roybal's bill may be less ambitious than Simpson-Mazzoli, but it is more feasible. Unlike Simpson-Mazzoli it does not count on employers and undocumented workers to come forward of their own accord. Rather than view this bill as an obstructionist ploy by a Hispanic congressman--as one senator referred to it--Congress and the President must address the issues...