Even if he is being cheated he has no real redress--for who is going to listen to an alien beggar? And so imported workers live in a condition that approaches servitude. because they are hopeless and powerless. This is what we have exprienced in the bracero program. this is what we experienced with the coolie business in the last centuryand this is what other countries that import foreign laborers experience today. I do not think that we want to reopen in our country the desperately tragic bracero program. I do not think that we have found the answer to prevent exploitation of imported workersfor nobody has. in this land or in any other. found any way to protect the rights of workers who are absolutely without any influence or power. as alien workers are. Let us not bring back upon ourselves the shame of the discredited alien labor program. let us not bring upon ourselves the same conditions and shame that has beset and still besets every nation that uses imported alien laborlet us be reasonable and act for our own honor and integrity. and not play off against each other the poor and desperate people of this land and their even more poor and desperate counterparts abroad. We have workers enough to do our laborwe have millions without work. Let us not degrade them. degrade aliens. and degrade ourselves by reopening the odious practice of alien contract laborbe it a coolie law or any euphemism for itbecause in the final analysis a coolie law is just thata coolie law. and ought to be rejected by humane and honorable societies.
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Imported workers are hopeless and powerless and live in servitude.