But the package that is before us now is seriously defective for many reasons. but most particularly the section we are getting into now. So. coming back to the point I was trying to make the legislation that passed out of the Judiciary Committee is defective. and I would like to cite the comments of a very great leader in this body. the chairman of the Judiciary Committee. that he made in a Law Review article. which I agree with particularly as it applies to agriculture. The gentleman said in 1974: Whatever future amendments the Congress may make in immigration law. it must not lose sight of the fact that its first responsibility is to protect workers from adverse foreign competition. The present bill is bad. We will face some amendments down the road. the amendments proposed by the ranking minority member of the Committee on Education and Labor which make it worse. We will face amendment No. 42 proposed by the Committee on Agriculture. which is a total disaster and which will absolutely destroy the effort to unionize and improve the wages and working conditions of farm workeri in this country. and most particularly In the State from which I come. California. The one beneficial change on existing law in this bill is eliminated by this particular amendment because this particular amendment eliminates the change made by the Committee on the Judiciary which transfers the determination of how long the H2 visas should be granted from the Attorney General. who has no expertise or basis for determining worker shortages. to the Secretary of Labor. The Secretary of Labor is the person to be making that determination. They have the determinations of work force needs around the country.
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