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Applicants for farm labor jobs in the same county were double growers requests for workers even at periods of peak utilization. While illegal entrant use was formerly predominantly agricultural. current patterns show a dramatic shift to permanent low and semiskilled employment in industry and in the cities. Additionally the incidence of illegal alien labor has gradually spread from the Southwest to other areas of the country. In Los Angeles where the unemployment rate is about 5 percent compared with 3.5 percent nationallyAugust 1969up to 4.000 illegal entrants are apprehended each month. Recent wetback apprenhensions in rural areas similarly reflect a shift in wetback employment to more permanent jobs such as wineries and light manufacturing.