President. I wish to join with the distinguished Senator from Florida in expressing the hope that the Senate and .the conference committee will retain section 706 in the farm bill. so that at long last we may begin to take a practical. enlighted. workable approach to the matter of supplemental foreign labor which. over the years. has come to the farms in 29 States to help at the peak harvest times. As we know. the Attorney General by law governs the admission to our country of temporary foreign labor. under the Immigration Act. and by regulation has delegated to the Secretary of Labor the responsibility for deciding whether such foreign labor is necessary. With the expiration of Public Law 78. the Secretary of Labor assumed responsibility for all decisions as to whether foreign labor should be admitted to this country for agriculture. The Secretary of Labor had an admirable hope that we might eliminate our unemployment by transferring great numbers of our urban unemployed to the farms to replace the temporary foreign farmworkers.
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