There is at times a scarcity of labor. The present status of the law provides that the Secretary of Labor shall certify the need for labor in case of any specific application. The Secretary of Labor recognizes that that person. once receiving a permanent visa. becomes a permanent resident of the United States and is. therefore. competitive on the labor market of the United States and is available to all of the benefits. including welfare. and therefore the Secretary of Labor is very guarded about approving such applications. Consequently. many. many of these needed employees are not approved. and farmers find great hardship in trying to harvest their crops and till their lands. What I propose here is an alternative that should have been done some time ago in order to maintain this Nation. to prevent the welfare rolls that we have had. and in order to provide the labor necessary to do the essential Jobs in various communities throughout this land. This amendment. which is In the form of a bill that I introduced earlier. provides that a person can apply for a temporary visa for a period of 1 year for a specific job under a specific contract. renewable for a year at a time. up to 5 years. I know that the Justice Department at one time said that they were afraid that this would cause a great increase and proliferation of immigration in this country. but what they failed to see was that it will have the exact reverse effect. because this insures that we are not going to have great migration Into this country. We are not going to have people. wetbacks. coming across the Rio Grande and other places. coming in illegally. because they will know there is a means by which to get jobs in this country under legal procedures. That is what I am providinglegal procedures.
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