Session #87 · 1961–63

Speech #870142316

Government that If it reduces the number of braceros available for work on U.S. farms. they will hire Mexicans who enter the country illegally. Turning logic upside down. Mr. TEAGUE says that the best way to cure the wetback problem is to legalize the wetbacks. I believe that if the Immigration and Naturalization Service is not adequate to the task of policing the Mexican border. it should be strengthened. I believe further. that if growers. or any other employers. presume to break our Nations immigration laws by harboring and trafficking In "wetbacks." they should be punished under the provisions of the Wetback Control Act of
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Naturalization Immigration immigration

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