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That the chief clerk be directed to prepare and transmit copies of this resolution to the President. Vice President. and Secretary of State of the United States. to the Speaker of the House of Representatives. and to each Senator and each Member of the House of Representatives from California in the Congress of the United States. To the Committee on Immigration: Assembly Joint Resolution 45 Joint resolution relative to facilitating the employment of Mexican citizens in agriculture Whereas the United States of America is sorely in need of skilled agricultural labor and has enterpd into arrangements with the Government of the Republic of Mexico for permitting its citizens to engage in agricultural pursuits in the United States. and Whereas there reside within close proximity of the borders of California and other States bordering upon the Republic of MexIco a large number of citizens of the Republic of Mexico. who. if existing governmental arrangements permitted. could either continue to reside in Mexico and work in the United States or reside intermittently in the United States for agricultural purposes. and Whereas existing regulations governing recruitment of Mexican citizens for agricultural labor in the United States require application for such work in Mexico City. and Whereas the President of the United States on Tuesday. March 30. 1943. stated that importation of Mexican agricultural workers was one of three means of relieving the farm labor shortage in the United States: Now. therefore. be it Resolved by the Assembly and Senate of the State of California (jointly). That Hon.