Tended to reduce the likelihood of union organization. D. Tended to encourage border county resldents to seek work elsewhere in the Nation as agricultural migrants. Mr. Chairman. in my capacity as chairman of the Subcommittee on Farm Labor. I know something about the fearful conditions which confront migrant agricultural workers. As informed citizens. I think we all know something of those conditions. And the effort to alleviate those conditions is a bipartisan one. The Labor Department. for example. has announced a multimillion dollar program to help move agricultural migrants out of migrancy into a way of work and life that is less characterized by grinding poverty. instability. and powerlessness. If this is the case. Mr. Chairman. how long can we continue to condone a situation which actually encourages people to become migrants? How bad must the presence of border crossers. especially illegal border crossers. make things if residents actually choose to go into migrancy as an alternative? David Norths report. after showing that wage levels. unemployment levels. .and the absence of effective benefits from other labor protective legislation. decreases almost in direct ratio to the distance you come north of the border. makes the following understatement: It is our belief that the influx of close to 100.000 border crossers into the border counties and the departure of some 100.000 farm workers and their dependents from these same counties must have a relationship to each other.
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