Mr. Speaker. last September you announced that the SimpsonMazzoli immigration reform bill would not be scheduled for consideration by the House at that time. Farmworkers across the country hailed your actions because of the bills H2 provision which establishes a Federal project that brings temporary. foreign farmworkers to the United States. U.S. farmworkers have bitter memories about the former U.S.-Mexico bracero program of the 1950s and 1960s. The bracero program also allowed the temporary importation of foreign farmworkers. The H2 provisions in SimpsonMazzoli rekindles that bitterness among farmworkers. Mr. Speaker. the following statement by Cesar Chavez. president of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW). succinctly articulates his views on this subject and I submit his comments for my colleagues to review.
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