Mr. President. I did not know Jose Garcia personally. He was a citizen of Mexico who resided in the city of Mercedes in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. He was a farmworker. I do know. however. that the plight of the migrant and seasonal farmworker in this country is a welldocumented national tragedy. Additional documentation. for those still in doubt. is an official State of Texas certificate of death recorded in Hidalgo County. Tex.. that shows that Mr. Garcia died on September 20. 1970. of heart failure due to malnutrition. A letter to me from an attorney in Texas confirmed that there was insufficient food in the house for Mr.