These crops qualify for Federal Government price supports--tomatoes. lettuce. and strawberries do not. The President. in his recent farm message. said he would like to have the cost of farm price supports reduced. Even without the authority of the bracero law to stand on. the Secretary of Labor could help the President do this by permitting Mexicans. under provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act. to enter California on a temporary basis to harvest our crops. But the Secretary says he will not do that. So it appears that we will get more beans. which already are bulging the seams of Government warehouses with the taxpayers footing the bill.
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