Byron Dorgan: “The choice on immigration is between doing the wrong thing and doing nothing. That is not the choice at all. That is a…”

“The choice on immigration is between doing the wrong thing and doing nothing. That is not the choice at all. That is a false choice. They bring the wrong thing to the floor of the Senate and say: If you oppose this, then you are for nothing. One of the things we are for is enforcing the law. We have a law in this country about employer sanctions, about illegal immigration, trying to stop it. All one would have to do would be to enforce the law. In 2004, there were four cases in the entire United States of America that were brought by the U.S. Justice Department against employers who were employing illegal workers, illegal aliens--four. What does that tell us? That tells us that the administration says: We surrender on the issue. We surrender. The other point I wished to make is there is no discussion on the floor of the Senate in the construct of this bill, within the debate on this bill, about the American worker. I understand we have an immigration issue. I fully understand that, and we need to deal with that. But part and parcel of that, in my judgment, ought to be some discussion on the floor of the Senate about how this affects the American worker.”