Jack Martin Illegal Quotations

It is too early to know what the Senate is likely to do. We think it is a serious mistake for any community to adopt a provision that would allow illegal immigrants to enter the country. It undermines respect for the law and has significant fiscal costs for taxpayers.

It is a tangible demonstration of the seriousness of the United States in not permitting illegal migration into the country.

We think it would usher in a period in which employers are increasingly weaned off of exploiting illegal aliens, and wages and working conditions for the poorest would increase.

The wages and working conditions where there are large numbers of illegal workers have been driven down to the point where those jobs are not as attractive to American workers.

Employers in many of these sectors have gotten themselves into a Catch-22 situation where if they do not look the other way and hire illegal workers, they will not be competitive with other businesses.