I represent a congressional district which I think has the longest boundary between the United States and Mexico of perhaps any other Member of this House. I have many growers in my district* who have used bracero labor over the years the program has been in operation. I have great sympathy and great concern about the treatment of the American migrant labor families in this country. and I think the time has come when we have to do something about their welfare too.. Last May 29 a bill came to this floor of which I was the author to extend this program for 2 years. I said on behalf of that bill at that time that I felt somewhat like the old wornout story of the witness in court who was asked how he felt when he saw his motherinlaw drive his brandnew. uninsured Cadillac off the cliff. He replied. "I had mixed emotions." That is the way I felt then about the 2year extension. and I must confess I have mixed emotions about this legislation today. But I am supporting this bill. I am supporting the extension. and I am urging my friends in the House to support the extension because a defeat of this bill in an effort to do justice to the migrant workers of America would do a great injustice to the farmers. the decent. honorable. hardworking farmers of this country who have built up their farms relying in part on this program. These people simply have no way of getting the labor they need to get their crops out and take them to market. I do not think you accomplish anything for the migrant workers of America. and I say this sincerely to my friends. by taking a whack at the farmers of America in voting down and defeating this bill. I think an extension is the rational way to do it at this late time in the year. particularly. It would be extremely unfair. it would be an extreme burden on those who are counting on this act.