Speech #880110706

Looking at these unemployment trends in the United States. it is fair to ask who can justify the importation of not less than 200.000 foreign agricultural workers from Mexico into the United States each year? The argument has been advanced that these imported workers fill jobs the unemployed citizens of our country will not take. I challenge that argument. Hearings before our Subcommittee on Immigration and Nationality on this subject revealed that the U.S. Employment Service is required to certify the unavailability of domestic workers before these imported workers may be used. CIX1305 The procedure involved in determining the unavailability of domestic workers is very questionable.