I would like to take a brief moment to dispel the notion that there are no domestic workers available to do the work of the bracero. The figures supplied by the committee show the adequacy of the domestic labor supply. The domestic migrants and local seasonal employees in every month of 1962 far exceeded the number of Mexican nationals in the farm labor force. The cutback in farm jobs because of mechanization indicates clearly that a large part of the domestic farm labor force is being lostto agriculture. If. as the majority of the committee suggests. the average number of hired farmworkers has declined by half a million since 1950. because of technological developments. the half million is over twice the number of braceros in the country last year.
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