D. C. DEAR PRESIDENT EIsENHowER: On behalf of the members of our respective unions we submit to you the following information: Armed officers of the Border Patrol. under the direction of the Department of Justice. have in the past 3 days recru ted Mexican citizens who entered this country illegally for employment on Imperial Valley farms. An undetermined number of these wetbacksnot less than 20were processed by the Immigration agents and referred to the Department of Labor immediately without the wetbacks having made legal entry by passing over Mexican territory. We make this statement in the nature of a charge of violation of the immigration law by those entrusted with its enforcement. We further advise you that Department of Labor officials now operating in the Imperial Valley have taken these same wetbacks and contracted them for employment in agriculture. The negligence of the Departmentiof Labor is aggravated. in our judgment. by the failure of the Department to determine the actual need for foreign labor in the Valley at this time.
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