The Mexican farm labor program was designed to provide an orderly means of supplying needed supplemental agricultural labor without adversely affecting domestic farmworkers. If Public Law 78 is not extended. Mexican farmworkers will be free to come in as nonquota immigrants. or as nonimmigrants. under the Immigration and Naturalization Act. but some of the safeguards of Public Law 78 will have been lost. Prior to its enactment. Mexican farmworkers came in under the general immigration laws pursuant to an agreement with Mexico. The employers did their own recruiting. and in order to keep expenses down. they recruited at the border if they could. The Mexicans were anxious for the work and traveled many miles in any way they could from the interior to the border.
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