Mr. Speaker. in our discussion of the bracero program. we have heard some pretty fantastic defenses of it. Last week we were told that the best thing we can do for American migrant workers would be to take their Jobs away. This brought some interesting reactions. I would like to relate part of a letter I received today from a migrant worker in California. This worker asks: Is it humanitarian to bring cheap foreign labor and force us migrant workers to either work for the same wages as the bracero. or else starve. or if we are lucky receive charity from the welfare department? Either one is bad. The migrant way Is not an Ideal way of life. it is true. but some of us have been doing this for many years. and are happy working this way provided we earn enough to feed our families. This is a free country. and. if some of us are forced to live that way. we should be allowed to do so. Dont try to stop it by bringing cheap foreign labor to replace us. thinking you are doing us a favor. Yes. we would like to live in one place and form a part of a community but here again we are discriminated (against) in the better jobs. Give the solution you have for the migrant worker. If you keep on bringing braceros. what are we to do? I submit that this letter is not very grammatical. But it tells very clearly the problem facing the American migrant if the bracero program is extended. If we want to offer a humanitarian solution to the problems of the American migrant worker. we should give him a break in the labor market by eliminating the wagedepressing factor of foreign workers. If we are interested in being humanitarian. we should do this and enact the proposals of Senator WILLIAMS. which would. in fact. help the migrant. What is certain is that you cannot help a man by taking his job away from him or depressing his wages.