From this high rate of rural underemployment among our own citizens. it logically follows that many jobs performed by braceros could well have been performed by domestic farmworkers. As if this situation were not in itself serious enough. we are faced with the irony that Public Law 78 gives better protection to Mexican national farm laborers than we now accord our own citizens engaged in agricultural work. The contract governing the employment of braceros provides them with workmens compensation. free housing while at employment centers. free transportation from Mexican migrant stations to reception centers in the United States. guarantees of minimum work periods. and guarantees of wages not less than the prevailing wages paid to domestic farmworkers for similar work within the area of employment. This extremely unfortunate and undesirable situation convinces me that Public Law 78 should not be extended unless measures are provided to prevent its effect of limiting the employment opportunities of our domestic farmworkers. I am confident that the Senate in its wisdom will arrive at a solution to the problems in this area which will be in the best intrests of all concerned.