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B-198205 1 (1980-05-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjeo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: - II S 1 6 i L L I ' COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THIfE IJNITEC 5T-ATES WASIIJGTOti, P.C, r$4'I 85ay 20, 1.980 fl-19fJY)5 1kt ftaS.ko ymtnb to publig rrfls5 it Tho Jionorable John M. Ashbrook Ranking Minority \Iember Labon MLaagqflment Relations Suboommi ttee Committee on Eiducation and Labor House of Representailves Deat' Mr. Ashbrook: You trecently asked several quiestions concerning the legxity of the Department of Labor's (1OL) Employers of Undocumented Workers (EUWi Strike Force. Your queltions a ,tise in the context of a. limitation in tei Depais,.ment's F iscal Year 1979 apPtjopriation act, which stated: None of the Cfundi appropreited by this title may he uaed by the Depar tmene of Labor to carry out anty actt. ;tty for or on behalf of any Individual who is an alien in the United States In violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act or any other law, convention, or treaty of the United States relating to the immigration, exclusion, deportation, or expulhion of aliens' Public Law No. 95-490, approved October 18, 197,8, 92 Stat. 1567, 1571 § 102. The limitation waa first enuuoiated in Public Law No. 95-205, 91 Stat. 1461, a contintiing resolution for DY 1978 which incorpora'ted the language of H.R. 7.555, 95th Cong., lstSess. (1977). The referenced bill included the illegal alien spending restriction. See Cong. Rec. H6022 (daily ed. June 16, 1977). Again, in FY 1980 the limitation was .ncor- porated by reference in DOL's continuing resolution, Public ILhw No. 96-123, approved November 20, 1979, 93 Stat. 923, 925 § 101(g), citing the terms and conditions in the DCL appropriation bill paised by the House (on August 2, 1979, a bill which included the restriction. Although we agree that the language of th, restriction is very broad in scope, we do riot think that it affects the activities of the EUW Strike Forces. The so-called Strike Forces are teams of specially trained Wage and Hour compliance officers who investigate the personnel practice3 off employers in low skill, high turnover industries, where undocumented ii, ' /I .- *r ;' 9 i fJ.,

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