Yet their neighbors in the State of Arizona groan under the burden of paying 60 cents an hour for cotton chopping. This is the reality behind the face of this program. The sweatshop from our cities has found refuge on our farms. Let us treat all the farmers alike. If there is a genuine need for foreign labor to work on our farms. there is provision made for its importation in the general immigration laws. What justification can there be for a special program which benefits to any substantial degree only farmers in States close to the Mexican border? Of the 227.000 Mexicans contracted and recontracted in 1962 more than 182.000 of them. over 80 percent. worked in California.
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