Barney Frank: “The previous remarks highlight the disconnect between reality and what the opponents are saying. There is now on the…”

“The previous remarks highlight the disconnect between reality and what the opponents are saying. There is now on the books such a mandate. The gentleman acts as if this amendment would create it. The law now says, and has for 10 years, that you must show to the employer that you are legally entitled to work in the United States. Employers are legally at risk. If they fail to ask and it turns out they have hired someone who is not legally entitled to work, they are at risk. I do not understand this argument. If you want to abolish sanctions, okay, but you cannot argue that this amendment creates an obligation which we have had for 10 years. I would point out, by the way, that it is so onerous an obligation that most people apparently do not even realize we have it.”