Mr. President. the recently televised NBC white paper on the plight of migrant workers once again awakened Americans to the inhuman circumstances undei which -so. many of our farmworkers must live. Unfortunately. the hdrrible living and working conditions of these millions of Americans are noticed only at those infrequent intervals when a television program of. this type is broadcast. However. the compelling plight of migrant labdfers in the United States is a national disgrace that we can no longer afford to ignore. These workers who toil to provide food for ourtables live in a twilight world of hunger. abject poverty. and lack of opportunity in the midst of plenty. Morethan a quarter of a million mi-. grant farmworkers are today laboring in fields across America. and before the end of the year well over 1 million peoplemen. women. and childrenwill have been so employed.