If we look at who they are putting under a bond. who they are fingerprinting. who they are placing under the other requirements of the act. it is not just the crew chiefs. They have covered the farmers themselves. and even where they had foremen who were permanent employees. they have required them to register. Not in one instance but in hundreds of instances. where the workers were not migrants. where they were permanent workers and did not travel from one area to the other. So it has been a classic example again of where the bureaucracy has completely exceeded its bounds. Currently the Department is registering as farm labor contractors. citrus growers in Florida. fruit and vegetable farmers. corn and grain sorghum seed producers. cotton ginners. cattle feedlot operators. and nurserymen. just to name a few. We even have a situation in Florida where three cultivators working a citrus grove in Florida are required to register because they take turns driving each other to the grove and thus are considered to be transporting migrant labor. I really do not feel Congress had this in mind when we passed the 1974 amendments. As is so often the case we have allowed an executive department to take the law and extend it far beyond its original purpose.
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