Two large garment manufacturing firms were found to employ 88 greencard commuters as sewing machine operators at the very time the Texas Employment Service listed 156 U.S. sewing machine operators at that time were unemployed. A comparison of wages paid by firms employing only U.S. workers was found to be 38 percent higher than the wages paid by firms employing commuters in identical occupations. Another unfortunate consequence of immigration abuses has been the reports In recent weeks that greencard strikebreakers have been imported to the Abatti Company strike sites in southern California in an effort to cripple legitimate legal strikes by the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee. The greencard commuter system was found to have caused similar strikebreaking and other consequences detrimental to American Workers in Delano. Calif.. in May of 1968. by a highlevel Labor Department report. I ask unanimous consent that the text of this report be printed in the RECORD following my remarks. The 1965 amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act place a limitation of 120.000 on total annual immigration to the United States from all nations in the Western Hemisphere. Given this limited quota. it seems unfair that a single one of these 120.000 positions be used by any person who does not intend to come to permanently and physically live. work in. and become a part of American society. The legislation I am introducing today recognizes that the greencardcommuter problem will be eliminated only by specific congressional action.
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