In the first place. it is necessary to get supplemental labor to harvest food and fiber crops. when domestic workers are not available. The act has almost entirely eliminated the wetback menace in this country. Let us look at the figures given by the Immigration Service to us. For instance. in 1954. 1.475.168 swam the river and came into this country and worked on the farms of America to earn a livelihood. After we had this legislation on the statute books. the figures show in 1959 that that 1.475.168 had been reduced to only 35.196 who entered this country illegally.
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