Speech #830238183

I told her how she has said for many years how she has thought we were silly for putting in so many hours. especially Saturdays and many times on Sunday. working. now she thinks we are getting rich and keeping her from working at higher wages. every thing she said during the conversation was just like a parrot repeating after an agent. On the other side of the border the agents are busy telling the wets that have been sent back that both the North Americans and their own Government are trying to take everything from them. As far as the men we sign up on contract being screened. thats a big joke. also. immigration would haul busloads of wets to Calexico and put the men over on the Mexico side. the next morning the same men would come across the line and go to work in the tomato. melon. and other fields. and at night the immigration officers would pick them up again and haul them back again. It looked good on paper. great amount of wetbacks they were hauling across. really doing a big cleanup job. Its true there has to be a limit on how many come across the border. and also the Mexicans should not be allowed to work In the industries or take work from American citizens. but here in the farming area. where we cant get anyone else to do the work. the Mexicans are a necessary factor in our farming operations.