But on the whole their economic and social conditions remain one of the great problems faced by the Congress. if not the most serious. Several factors contribute to the seriousness of the problem. But it is almost the unanimous conclusion of the various religious. civic. labor. and humanitarian groups which deal with American migrants and are concerned about the welfare of the migratory American citizens that Public Law 78. the one with which we deal today. has had an adverse effect upon the wellbeing of domestic workers and an adverse effect upon the efforts which have been made to improve those conditions. The law has prevented or greatly limited the economic and social progress which should have taken place. and which might have taken place in the past 12 years if the law had not been on the statute books. I should like to review a few of the major considerations which lead my colleagues and me to the conclusion that the law should not be extendedand should not even be consideredwithout writing into the law additional specific amendments to protect the rights of domestic American workers.
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