Mr. President. that the highest number of seasonal farmworkers of all types employed in the United States from the period November 1959 through October 1960 was 1.316.000. the figure for October 1960. This total included 823.000 domestic workers who were not migrants and 236.000 foreign seasonal farmworkers. leaving a total of 256.000 domestic migrant workers during that month. The highest number of domestic migrants during the period covered was 293.000 in July 1960. Mr. President. the fact is that the total number of migrant workers is so much under the figure of 3 million that someone must have taken the figure out of thin air and tried to state the number of workers. seasonal farmworkers of all types. plus their families. or to give some other approximation of a much larger figure than the number of migrant workers. that I am unable to understand where the figure could have come from. However. it appears several times in this deplorable film. and has been seized upon several times by the reporters in Great Britain. It is a complete misrepresentation of the number and of the size of this problem in our Nations life.
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