There is no time today to tell again the entire story. but I repeat that the Secretary has failed utterly in his effort to bring domestic workers onto our farms to replace those foreign workers who formerly helped us out at harvest time. Today this fact is even more easily proved than it has been before. For years I have been pointing out to Secretary Wirtz that since he restricted the use of supplemental foreign workers the harvests on California farms have been handled not by the unemployed domestics he promised to bring to our farms. who never materialized. but by Mexican nationals who came in as green card workers and. unfortunately. by thousands of illegal entrant wetbacks. Mr. Wirtz has met these statements time and again with silence. possibly embarrassed to admit that his experiment in sociology just did not work. Last Friday. September 22. the Secretary. in a different context admitted the truth of my previous statements when he told the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization that tens of thousands of Mexican green card workers are employed on our farms. The Secretary made this statement in an effort to restrict the entry of these green card workers. I would point out that in all the statistics made available by the Labor Department during the last 2 years dealing with farm labor these same green card workers were referred to as domestics and the impression was generally given that actually the work was being done by American citizens which was not the case. At that same hearing. Secretary Wirtz chose to congratulate the California Rural Legal Assistance Organization for its work in the farm labor area.
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