Mexican workers have repeatedly found that the growers have not provided the expected Incomes or living conditions and they have not been permitted to organize effectively to enforce contract terms and protest gross abuses. As a result. thousands have skipped their contracts and gone to industrial areas. swelling the ranks of the several million illegal entrants estimated to come here each year. The abuses to which the illegal entrants are subject are even greater. since any effort to insist on decent conditions may well result in deportation without payment of wages due. The depressing effect on American job opportunities and wages is very severe in certain areas. and cities as well as rural areas are confronted with serious health problems from the miserable. unsupervised conditions under which these wetbacks live. Our friendly relations with Mexico are threatened by these growing evils through the natural resentments aroused among workers of both nations.
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