Chairman. the figures I quoted earlier were developed from U.S. Department of Labor statistics. Unfortunately. there are statistics and more statistics available on the subject of migrant farm labor. and virtually all of them are incomplete. confused. and divergent. This fact itself is actually symptomatic of the problem. for the lives and conditions and numbers of the displaced persons who are American migrant farm laborers are obscure. ignored. and overlooked. almost as if they were outside society altogether. The longrange effect of Public Law 78 has been to create a surplus of cheap labor by the importation of foreign farm labor from Mexico. Domestic farm laborers have been driven into migrancy. leaving their homes hunting jobs which pay a living wage. or just for jobs alone. regardless of the pay involved.