Hall. executive director of the Department of the Church and Economic Life of the National Council of Churches of Christ. has pointed out the concern expressed by the general board of the National Council in 1960 when it adopted a resolution. which reads as follows: The importation program has injurious effects on the family and community life both of the Mexican nationals who are Imported and of the domestic workers who. because of the presence of Mexican nationals. are deprived of employment or find it necessary to migrate in search of employment. In his letter of July 29. 1963. Reverend Hall states: This resolution. adopted in February 1960. reflects the long experience of the National Council of Churches through its ministry to migrants. This led us to the conviction that the Mexican farmworker importation program. introduced as a wartime emergency measure and continued year after year long after the emergency had ceased. should be gradually eliminated during a specified phaseout period. Since that time the widespread introduction of mechanization has resulted in an automatic phaseout process in which the number of braceros brought into the country has decreased each year.
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