Mr. Speaker. I have today introduced a bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to repeal the authority under section 212 of that act to establish an adverse wage rate for nonimmigrant aliens brought into the United States for agricultural labor. Under this authority. the Department of Labor has developed a procedure for determining each year the adverse effect wage rate for each of the States where large numbers of foreign workers are employed. On March 27 the Department announced the rates for 1981. while simultaneously proposing to withdraw the recommendation by the previous administration to establish a national rate.
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