Until they are old enough to work. their days are spent in sitting in the fields and watching their parents toil from dawn to dark. Home to them is one unsanitary. decrepit shack after another. These people are totally excluded from protection of social security and fair labor standards laws. They have yet to benefit from the measures passed over 20 years ago during the New Deal. More often than not American migrant laborers are Negroes. Even lower on the economic scale are the 400.000 Mexicans imported temporarily each year under an agreement with their Government. At least these foreign workers receive certain minimum protection free housing. and free insurance against occupational hazards under our agreement with the Mexican Government.
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Generalization about the living conditions and economic status of Mexican migrant laborers.