The American GI Forum of Texas. MexicanAmerican Veterans. and civic organization. dedicated to the betterment of the Southwests 3 million Spanishspeaking citizens. highly praises your sincere and truthful stand on the proposed bracero resolution. No one knows better about the welfare of our Texas farm laborers. the majority of whom are Americans of Mexican descent. than Archbishop Lucey. who has seen their poverty and squalor caused by the unfair and illegal competition of wetbacks and braceros. who provide a vast reservoir of cheap. and I mean cheap. farm labor for the greedy farming interests who have become rich overnight through use of alien labor. We are thousands of voters. thousands of Americans who depend upon farm wages for our daily tortillas. We cannot be heard in our Congress because we do not have the money to send delegations to present our March I side. We hope you will help our people. many of whom in the thousands are unemployed. Failure of the administration as well as Congress to adequately provide for border patrol and detention facilities is congressional and administration blessing to cheaplabor subsidy for southwestern farmers and ranchers. as well as utter disregard for Nations security in allowing a wideopen border to exist. Our Government should spend money in marshaling our own farm labor pool. Domestic farm labor needs employment and our retail business needs their farm dollars.
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