Speech #970272069

In the Central Valley of California. we have a number of rural communities with a 15 percent unemployment level. yet last summer farm jobs went begging. Domestic workers were too comfortable living off the fat of the public dole. The simple fact is that American workers will not meet the demands of laborintensive agriculture. at the same time 50 percent of the work force was made up of socalled illegal aliens. I think this represents an interesting picture in darwinistic terms. The Senate was told that the H2 temporary worker program and the amnesty provisions of the bill were designed to meet the needs of agricultural employers.