A wetback is like a stray dog. He tries to be agreeable. he will accept much ill treatment. at least up to the point where he slinks away and tries his luck elsewhere. He is often overcharged for what he buys and underpaid for his work and is always in fear of being deported. The gentleman from Pennsylvania spoke of racketeers. Let me read to you briefly from the report on migratory labor of the Presidents Commission or Migratory Labor: Wetbacks who are without funds to pay the smuggler for bringing them in or to pay the truckercontractor who furnish transportation and direction from the boundary to the farm are frequently sold from one exploiter to the next.
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Wetbacks are like stray dogs, accepting ill-treatment and always in fear of deportation.