Chairman. I realize that crops must be harvested and I also realize at this time it is very essential that the farmers in these farming areas must get help. Farmers must recruit migrant workers by importing them. They cannot get labor in the United States. I am for bringing in the Mexicans. and elsewhere. The gravamen of my complaint is that there are not proper safeguards in the act that permit their coming in. For example. the New York Timesand I referred to it in my colloquy today with the distinguished chairman of the Committee on Agriculturereports under date of January 11. as follows: In 1952 this invasion of wetbacks reached a peak of 1.500.000 or more aliens. it is indicated by the best available statistical evidence. According to figures just compiled from official sources. the apprehension of illegal aliens * * * totaled approximately 618.000. Then information has reached the Committee on the Judiciary in our investigations that for every one caught there are two who go undetected. So. the conclusion is that over 1.500.000 have come in illegally in each year.
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