Mr. Speaker. the Congress by scrapping the Mexican bracero program several years ago must share much of the responsibility for the estimated 1.000.000 illegal aliens who work in this country. Under the bracero program Mexican farm workers were brought in to work in those areas where there was a shortage of people to do that kind of work. They were admitted under contract with employers. at going wage levels. The program worked very well. and relatively few people came in illegally. But the Congress. yielding to labor union and Labor Department pressure. refused to allow the program to be continued.
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