Thus it is. in the sense of their objectives. the socalled wetback problem as it existed in the 1940s and the 1950s has. to a great extent. passed. Whereas the wetback movement was formerly a Texas and California agricultural phenomenon. it is now marked by numbers employed in our cities rather than in agriculture. The Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization recently said: The Mexicans have discovered that they can find work in industry as well as on farms and ranches and they are gravitating toward our large cities. such as Chicagopart 1. page 857 of the hearings on appropriations. My colleagues. the great agricultural demands in this country are hardly fitted to the hundreds of thousands of wetbacks who formerly came. There are no longer cotton field demands for a cotton picker on every row in order to get the crop out in a couple of days to meet a market situation or a problem of the weather.
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