Under Secretary of Labor. made clear in his testimony to the Subcommittee on Migratory Labor of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare what the standards should be under which this program might be extended. These include an amendment to Public Law 78 to provide our own citizens with occupational insurance. housing. and transportation benefits comparable to those now guaranteed to Mexican nationals by the growers. As the program now stands. our American migrant farm workers are suffering from unfair competition from imported labor. With several millions of our own citizens unemployed and unable to find jobs. it simply does not make sense to make even worse the lot of the most vulnerable workers in our economy. Nearly 200.000 workers came into the country under the Mexican labor program in 1962 and previously the figure had reached nearly a half million.. "In terms of human values. in terms of human necessity." as Mr.