In California and Floridaespecially in my State of Californiawe have a most difficult situation at the present time. I wish to call the committees attention to the language of the report on the bill before us on this regard which reads as follows: The legislative authorization for the Mexican Farm Labor Program expired December 31. 1964. In addition new restrictions were placed on the importation of foreign labor under the Immigration and Nationality Act on the assumption that domestic workers can. in most instances. meet that part of the demand for agricultural labor formerly met by foreign laborers. This transition has. to a large extent. been successful. However. even with some expansion of the Departments Farm Labor Service. there have been instances of severe hardship and crop losses that appear to have resulted from failure of the system to operate as well as it should.
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