Over the years there has been a general rise in wages paid to farmworkers. In the areas in which large numbers of Mexican nationals have been employed under contract. wages have not risen as fast as the national average. or as fast as the average in other types of employment. In some areas. overall wages averages have tended to decrease. This is the kind of evidence which it seems to me is beyond refutation. When tens of thousands of such workers are employed in an area. the effect obviously is to depress wages for American farmworkers. both migrants and residents of the area.
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