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Mondale also misrepresented the provisions of the Simpson-Mazzoli bill, which is designed to curb illegal immigration into the U.S. in part by imposing fines on employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens. The Democratic nominee objected that the bill "requires employers to determine the citizenship of an employee before they're hired . . . I don't think we should have a citizenship card." The bill says nothing about a citizenship card. It would require job applicants to produce documents-Social Security cards, drivers licenses, temporary work permits-indicating that they are legal residents of the U.S., not necessarily citizens...
...most unsatisfactory discussion of all was about immigration. Mondale repeated his opposition to the Simpson-Mazzoli bill, which died in the last Congress. It would have imposed penalties on employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants, many of whom come from Mexico. Mondale protested that this could have led to discrimination in hiring against all Hispanics, indeed against all foreigners. It was at this point that he worked in a strained attack on the U.S. budget deficit, claiming that the deficits raised interest rates, which created trouble for poor countries in repaying international debts and intensified the poverty that causes many...
...wake, the 98th Congress left a helter-skelter of dead bills. Among the principal casualties was a long-overdue reform of the nation's immigration laws, the Simpson-Mazzoli bill. Also abandoned was a civil rights measure that restated the intent of Congress, in the aftermath of a contrary Supreme Court ruling, to deny all federal funds to entire institutions, rather than just to the offending department or program, if discrimination is practiced. Killed, too, was a bill to renew and increase financing of the superfund program under which Washington helps states and localities clean up toxic-waste dumps...
Immigration. The Simpson-Mazzoli bill combined amnesty for many aliens already in the U.S. with criminal penalties against employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants in the future. Differing versions passed both Senate and House earlier this year. At week's end a conference committee was still struggling to find a way to placate Hispanics who feared the bill would encourage discrimination against them. Salvaging the bill would take a "miracle," said a House aide...
Unfortunately, amid all the political partisanship and posing, the serious matter of just how to finance the Government for the current fiscal year got scant attention. Another victim of the pressures may be one of the most important reforms undertaken by any recent Congress: the Simpson-Mazzoli bill, which would try to bring some sense to immigration policies. Passed in both houses, but in different forms, it would grant amnesty to illegal aliens who can prove longtime residency in the U.S., and would apply penalties against employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens in the future. Mexican Americans in particular oppose...