Mr. Gladwin Hill. who made an investigation of this matter for the New York Times. last year estimated that between 500.000 and 1.000.000 Mexicans crossed the border in this way in a single year. The Senate Agriculture Committee placed the number at more than a million in its report on S. 984 last year and conceded the importance of this illegal immigration. We know also some of the effects of this large migration. The presence of this large number of Mexican laborers who enter our country illegally serves to keep down the wages of American farm workers. Furthermore. since these persons enter the United States illegally. we know that they are at the mercy of their employers. because their employers can turn them over to the authorities at any time and can have them deported. And. therefsre. the workers are forced o accept low wages and not very good working conditions. I believe we must deal with this question much more vigorously than the committee has done. although I wish to pay tribute to the committee for acting to improve the present situation.
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