[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 161 (Thursday, December 15, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H11660]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT

  (Mr. KING of Iowa asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. KING of Iowa. Madam Speaker, today as we celebrate Iraqi Freedom 
Day, I want to raise a different subject, and that is that we will be 
bringing legislation to the floor of this House that will bring some 
enforcement to our immigration laws. It has been a long time coming. 
There has been a lot of good work done by a lot of people. I am hopeful 
that this legislation now will also include an amendment that I hope to 
propose, H.R. 3095, the New IDEA bill. New IDEA stands for the Illegal 
Deduction Elimination Act.
  The IRS is more inclined, I believe, to enforce our immigration laws 
than DHS has proven to be. I would submit that they can go in and do 
their regular audits and check the Social Security numbers of the 
employees through the instant check program that will be renamed the 
employer verification system hopefully today or tomorrow and then give 
safe harbor to those employers that do that verification of their 
employees. Otherwise the expense that is a business expense that will 
be written off will have to be denied as a deduction so that it becomes 
taxable if it is a profitable business. That takes a $10 an hour 
illegal up to a $16 an hour and lets the legal person have a job 
instead of the illegal person.

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