Orrin Hatch: “This Congress is supposed to be about reducing the Federal bureaucracy. I must confess that I am perplexed about where…”

“This Congress is supposed to be about reducing the Federal bureaucracy. I must confess that I am perplexed about where the idea for a new Federal bureaucracy is coming from. The administration opposes this provision for a new Office of Enforcement of Employer Sanctions. It argues that this new Office would be duplicative of ongoing programs within the INS and the Office of Special Counsel. In fact, the Attorney General's office suggests that a new office would not only be a waste of money, but make the program even less effective. The employer sanctions provisions of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 [IRCA] have not successfully controlled illegal immigration. That is not simply my opinion, it is a fact. Illegal aliens continue to pour into this country. A cottage industry in counterfeit and fraudulent documents has flourished, and an increasingly lucrative black market in smuggling aliens into this country has thrived. Employer sanctions do not work.”