Build a 12 foot wall with electrified barbed wire. complete with 10.000 Marines carrying machine guns and you will "get control." Short of that. we have the option of dealing realistically with the migratory flow of workers a cross our border with Mexico. We must be generous. and we must be humane in our treatment of the Mexican people. If we wish to bring order to our immigration pollcies. if we wish to harmonize our relationship with the people of Mexico. then we need to legalize and regularize the flow of temporary agricultural workers into and out of our nation. We need to establish a program that is simple. free from the burdensome redtape which now stangles the H2 temporary workers program. Obviously. agricultural employers would benefit from such a program. but I feel most strongly that we would be doing a tremendous service to the Mexican workers. We would elevate them to a legal status and be able to protest them under our fair wage. hour. and working condition laws. We could see that these migrants are protected and treated with the respect they deserve. Many of my colleagues will argue thP.t alien workers displace domestics and elevate our unemployment level. While this may be true in some urban labor markets it is not true in agricultural areas.
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Generalization about migratory flow of workers across the border with Mexico.