Mr. Speaker. even when members of Americas Asian community succeed in securing sophisticated technical or- professional training. overt racial discrimination often times prevents these Asia Americans from getting jobs commensurate with their abilities and training. In Los Angeles. where the Filipino popula-. tion has increased from 20.000 in 1965 to some 50.000 at present. the New York Times points out the following: Today a majority of the Filipino Immigrants are doctors. lawyers. engineers. teachers. nurses and other professionally trained persons. Yet the life that most of them accept here is one that most native Americans would shun. Lawyers work as clerks. teachers as secretaries. dentists as aids. engineers as mechanics. and in some instances as common laborers.
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