Approximately 1 million men. women. and children are involved In the Nations migratory farm labor system. Excluded from most of the great social and economic legislation which protects the vast majority of the Nations wage earners. forced to compete with hundreds of thousands of foreign workers. bereft of training and education in anything other than agriculture. migratory farmworkers are truly the Nations excluded Americans. Each spring brings fresh reports of highway accidents resulting in the death and injury of migrants in transit. stranded migrants without adequate food or shelter. and the retardation of migrant children because of inadequate educational opportunities. Together. domestic migrant farmworkers comprise a "depressed class" of agricultural wage earnersa group which for many years has remained outside the broad scope of public concern or policy. Most are members of minority groupsNegro. MexicanAmerican.
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