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WETA "LAWMAKERS" 6/14/1984 IN 19.57.13-WETA credit/sponsor credits/title sequence 19.58.01-PAUL DUKE/LINDA WERTHEIMER/COKIE ROBERTS-on program: growing lobbying efforts of TEACHERS, and Capitol Hill dining. ROBERTS-intro report on agreement reached on IMMIGRATION REFORM. 19.58.41-Shot from inside Border Patrol vehicle, La Migra asks a shirtless Mexican man if he's a citizen, the man says no, and he doesn't have papers. Shot of surveillance plane flying over the south Texas desert. Shot of INS patroller driving big truck. Shots of INS agents apprehending ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS and putting them in the back of the truck. DO NOT USE C/Us of newspaper headlines debating the IMMIGRATION REFORM question. C/S Rep. DAN LUNGREN (R-CA) arguing that the reforms are needed. Congress needs to bite the bullet and make the tough choices. C/S Rep. LUNGREN outside Capitol, says the legislation is bound to have trouble. Shots of WALTER MONDALE rally in Southwest, with largely Hispanic crowd cheering MONDALE. C/S Rep. ROBERT GARCIA (D-NY) outside capitol, says HISPANICS are very loyal DEMOCRATS, but they feel betrayed by the DEMOCRATS favoring IMMIGRATION REFORM. 20.01.03-Shots of MIGRANT WORKERS in fields and orchards. ROBERTS v.o.-HISPANICS oppose the provisions of IMMIGRATION REFORM that call for sanctions against employers who hire illegal immigrants because they fear it will promote discrimination against legal Hispanic immigrants, legal aliens, and even U.S. Citizens of Hispanic origin. C/S Rep. BILL RICHARDSON (D-NM) in debate in house, argues that under the proposed law, if he used his mother's surname of Lopez to get a job in a border factory, he would be less likely to be hired than someone with an Anglo name. C/S LUNGREN, dismisses the hypothetical. C/S Rep. CLAY SHAW (R-FL) in well, argues that American workers are losing jobs to illegal aliens, tries to disguise his nativism by saying he's concerned about minority workers being hurt the most. ROBERTS v.o.-a motion to remove EMPLOYER SANCTIONS from IMMIGRATION REFORM was defeated. 20.02.52-Shot of Mexican or Mexican American marchers holding banners advocating AMNESTY for current ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. DO NOT USE Clip of a campaign ad, charging some candidates with supporting ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. C/S Rep. GARCIA, says that the candidate KENT HANCE used NATIVISM to leapfrog in the polls. C/S Rep. LUNGREN, says he's afraid of the demagoguery around the issue, Amnesty is a practical solution to passing tougher IMMIGRATION laws. Shots of groups of ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, men, women, children, crossing a river, children in an inner tube. C/S LUNGREN, says it's better to legalize current ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS and get tougher on future ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. C/S Rep. GARCIA, says that as long as there are problems in Latin America, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS will continue to try to come to the U.S., in the tradition of the founding fathers, he adds.