Howard Berman: “One cannot say to people, you cannot bring your mother, you cannot bring your father, you have to speak English, you…”

“One cannot say to people, you cannot bring your mother, you cannot bring your father, you have to speak English, you cannot come, we do not want you, get the dickens out of this country, but if you come to work temporarily when we can withhold 25 percent of your wages, when we can tell you if you have insurance for your car and not have insurance for your car, then you can come and work. I can get all the workers we want in my congressional district, and they are good hard workers. But in the spirit in which we are dealing here today, to me it is insulting, it is demeaning. These will be indentured servants in the United States of America, indentured to individuals who will withhold under law 25 percent of their pay, maybe or maybe not get housing or be charged for housing or forced to buy it at the ranch store or the company store. It is bad as it is, but I cannot accept all of the other things that are coming through.”