The Commission points out: The wetback is a hungry human being. His need of food and clothing is immediate and pressing. He is a fugitive and it is as a fugitive that he lives. Under the constant threat of apprehension and deportation. he cannot protest or appeal no matter how unjustly he is treated. Law operates against him but not for him. Those who capitalize on the legal disability of the wetbacks are numerous and their devices are many and various. * * * * * That the wetback traffic has severely depressed farm wages is unquestionablethe wetback wage tends to become the prevailing wage.
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