William F. Smith: “Mr. Speaker, several times today, various opponents have mentioned that we do not have in this legislation the…”

“Mr. Speaker, several times today, various opponents have mentioned that we do not have in this legislation the Department of Labor inspectors. But I want to remind them that they have already lost that argument twice. That provision was taken out on the House floor by amendment, and then subsequent to that we passed the House bill without those inspectors in it. That means two times it has come before this body and two times the Members have spoken. The point is that we have already debated that, we have already voted. The other thing about the inspectors that seems to be conveniently overlooked is that in this bill we have added an additional 900 inspectors, 300 each year for 3 years, and these are INS inspectors. It makes far more sense to have Immigration and Naturalization Service inspectors enforcing immigration laws than the Department of Labor. ... It also streamlines the current system of removing illegal aliens from the United States to make it both quick and efficient. It increases penalties for alien smuggling and document fraud.”