There has been great good will generated by this annual exchange. As this small newspaper in Jamaica stated. this whole program is being threatened because some wellintentioned. socially minded people in the United States think that a person who is either out of work or on skid row in one of our large cities and unemployed is necessarily either a good citruspicker or a good canecutter or can do efficiently some of this hard workand it is very hard workwhich is required on the part of these supplementary laborers. It is passing strange that at a time when emphasis is being placed on foreign aid as an adjunct to our foreign policy. and when the administration is seeking amendment to our immigration laws to facilitate the admission of aliens on the basis of their skills. the Secretary of Labor in his discretion in dealing a massive blow to both programs. At one and the same time. he is canceling one of our most effective foreign aid enterprises. and refusing to use the provision of existing immigration laws under which aliens can be admitted on the basis of their skills. denying entrance on even a temporary basis to aliens whose skills are critically needed and not in sufficient domestic supply. Mr. President.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that unemployed people are not necessarily good laborers.