Senator MONDALE. Well. one of the reasons I spoke as despairingly as I did is during these hearings concerns an amendment which I had led the fight on in the Senate. The amendment would extend unemploynient compensation to migrant workers. We adopted the amendment in the Senate but it was knocked out by the Conference Committee and yesterday was lost on the House Floor. For a year now I have been carrying on a campaign to get the Immigration Service to enforce the law at border crossings because the real source of migrant problems is the source of poor. impoverished migrants coming up freely from Mexico. We have gotten no response from them at all. I have been supporting and have sponsored legislation for increased authorizations for migrant health programs. migrant education programs. legal services for migrants. and the rest. only to find that they are not either properly funded or the funds somehow get diverted into other hands.
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