Mitchell. the great Secretary of Labor during the Eisenhower administration. called attention to the evils of this program and appointed four very distinguished consultants to study it. These consultants were Edward J. They. a former Republican Senator of Minnesota. Msgr. George G. Higgins. director of the Social Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. Dr. Rufus B. Van Kleinsmid. then chancellor of the University of California. and .Glenn A. Garrett. then chairman of the Texas Council on Migrant Labor. This distinguished study group pointed out the tremendous hardships and suffering which this program caused among our American citizen farmworkers. It unanimously urged in 1959 that the existing law authorizing the imported labor be extended only temporarily and then dropped.