In other words. according to my interpretation. it would take less proof to send a farmer to the penitenitary for trying to harvest his crop if he happened to hire a wetback to help him harvest it. than it would to send a professional "fence" to the penitenitary for knowingly receiving stolen property. I should like to ask the Senator from Illinois another question: In this case are we not making a felon out of a farmer because he employs someone who happens to be illegally in the United States. to help him harvest his crop. rather than to permit the crop to go to waste and deteriorate and spoil. whereas it is the responsibility of the Federal Government itself to police the border and to keep out such persons? Thus we would make the farmer a victim of the Governments own failure and inefficiency in policing the border. so far as immigration is concerned. Is not that true?
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