First. because of my sympathy for those areas that are able to contract Mexican workers to take care of extremely urgent situations. such as occurs during harvest seasons involving vegetables. fruit and. in a few instances. cotton. There is a second reason. which I think is a valid one. why we should be very cautious in opposing this legislation at this time. In the old days. prior to 10 years ago. before so many restrictions were imposed upon the admission of Mexican farmworkers to meet the shortage problems. theannual inflow of permanent immigrants from Mexico was less than onethird of what it is today. Last year we admitted 55.291 for permanent residence. in 1953 the figure was 18.454. A study of the inflow during this period indicates that the rate of applications for permanent visas has had a direct relationship to the Labor Departments policies on restricting these people from coming in on a temporary. contractual basis. A total of 400.263 have been admitted for permanent residence from Mexico during this 10year period. I am informed that there are now about 35.000 such applications pending at the consulate in Monterrey.
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