These requirements included items taken for granted as standard for permanent quartersthat is. electricity and hot and cold running water. But the irony of the regulations is that they do not distinguish between permanent housing camps for transient workers and necessary summer mobile housing for western sheepherders. Many of our western herders are foreign nationals who contract their services for several years. thus being considered transient agricultural workers under Immigration and Naturalization Service regulations. Recently the INS has taken the position of refusingexcept through a narrowly defined system of variationsto grant necessary entry permits to foreign national sheepherders under contract to ranchers who are not in full compliance with the Department of Labors regulations dealing with housing. To impose these regulationsthat is. electricity and hot and cold running wateron the summer wagons. would seriously cripple the entire western range sheep industry.
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