The great need among American farm workers and migratory farm workers is for sufficient income to enable them to improve their conditions of life and secure a standard of living comparable to that enjoyed by other Americans. During the past 5 years the number of Mexican nationals brought into this Nation on an annual basis has been as follows: In 1958. 432.857. 1959. 437.643. 1960. 315.846. 1961. 291.420. and 1962. 194.978. � This large number of imported workers competes in respect to the hiring of the agricultural workers in the United States. which last year totaled on an average basis only 1.817.000 persons. In other words. even in 1962. a year in which fewer than 200.000 migrant workers were brought in from Mexico. those workers constituted approximately 10 percent of the hired agricultural labor force of the United States and. of course. a larger percentage of the migratory farm labor force. I think it is quite clear that a 10 percent increase in importation of agricultural workers constitutes serious competition. both with those who are in the agricultural work force or with those who might be inclined to go into it. This has prevented the normal wage adjustments which could be expected to operate under the law of supply and demand.