If anything is found to be wrong. then to correct it. or report it here so that it can be corrected here. I have no disposition at all to cover up anything in my own State. I do want to call attention. however. to the fact that the able Senator from New Jersey . who is handling the problem of migrants on the floor of the Senate so ably and so successfully. has several times stated on the floor of the Senate that the State of Florida had done more than States that he had been to otherwise in connection with such things as housing for migrants. such things as medical supplies and hospitalization for migrants. and such things as daycare schools. I believe that we were the first ones to set them up. I remember that only last year my dear friend from Massachusetts . reported. after a trip to Florida. that he found and gave high praise to the educational institutions set up in Florida to take care of the children of migrants. I just want those things to be borne in mind. I repeat. however. my invitation to send down whomever you have and find out what the truth is at Immokalee. It seems to me. from reading that article. that the reporter was concerned about two things in particular. One was that he found some poor. hungry. illfed and illhoused people. whom he did not describe as migrants. but who I am sure were migrants. in a county where he said the average income per family was $4.600 and where the county commissioners had not been willing to install a food stamp program or a program in the field of general commodity distribution. Perhaps he was overlooking the fact that migrants do come to Florida in the winter. just like evelybody else. including the Evangelists. who always come to Florida in the winter. and they come to Florida sometimes before the work is available. Perhaps that might have been the case. I cannot state anything of my own knowledge. because while I was in Immokalee between Christmas and New Years. I did not visit the migrants homes. I did see some migrant workers on the streets. and they were. apparently. well fed. healthy. laughing. and happy. and I did talk to some merchants. who thought that the conditions there were excellent. But I want the conditions. whatever they are. to be explored and reported.
Identified stereotypes
Migrants are described as either well-fed, healthy, laughing, and happy, or poor, hungry, ill-fed, and ill-housed.