Now. having put them to rest in that fashion. I would like to address the practicality of the issue. The practicality is that illegal aliens are not going to be counted whether you have another count or whether you base it on this count. Illegal aliens are a sub rosa society. and they were not around when the census * taker came by. If they had received forms in the mail they did not return them. because they do not want to be identified. That is a fact of life. Now. that is also a human element. They are protecting their unfortunate position. So I do not see any reason for delaying the formal procedure that is going to be followed because there is not any logical way we could identify the illegal aliens in the country using the census mechanism. The problem is this: As long as we have. which we do have now. a complete breakdown in the effectiveness of the Immigration and Nationalization Service. this problem of illegal aliens is going to remain with us. It is not the Census Bureau that is responsible for the influx of these aliens. If we want to find the culprit. it is not the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee. It is probably the Judiciary Committee. If they concentrated on writing a workable immigration law. that might help. The other cure would be if the Agriculture Committee would come back with. something like the old bracero program when we had the bracero program. whereby the migrant farmworkers from Mexico came across under conditions governed by our two countries. we did not have that illegal alien problem to the degree we have it now. Ceasar Chavez would not be able to organize as many farmworkers if the bracero program were in operation. For political reasons. the Johnson administration scuttled the bracero program. That is when the floodgates opened and the illegal aliens started to pour into this country.
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