Mr. Speaker. some years ago the House recognized the plight of migrant agricultural workers in regard to health services. Seldom citizens of the places where they worked. they found no local health facilities open to them and no programs for any preventive medicine. This situation endangered both the migrants and the communities. With the leadership and grant assistance provided by the program under consideration now the situation has been materially bettered. Literally hundreds of communities where migrants work have programs to provide health care and. since our last renewal of the law. emergency hospital services. The bill we passed some time ago recognized another situation. The health of nonmigrant workers who labor along side the migrant can cause some of the very problems we had hoped to avoid. So where the health of the nonmigrant is so closely connected we allowed the use of funds for both on the same basis. The Senate version varied but little frcm the House version of this program.
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Migrant workers are described as not being citizens of the places where they work and lacking access to local health facilities.