Senator MCCARTHY. who also recommended this proposal as a part of the Mexican farmlabor bill supported by the new administration. Why do we need to amend Public Law 78? This program was originally passed in a period of labor shortage during the Korean war. Since then it has been extended with no real revisions. The number of Mexicans working in the United States has in fact increased significantly. To a large part. this has simply meant bringing into the country a captive labor force that depresses the wages of American migrant farmworkers. Both Labor Secretary Goldberg and former Secretary Mitchell testified to this effect. Who is hurt?