Political Quotes

“I have one concern about the amendment, and that concern is that it would appear to me to be broad enough that it would include children of migrant laborers who come in from other countries. If that is true, they are probably the most needy and their parents are the most needed because, being in the orchard business myself, to try to hire locally you might as well let the fruit rot and drop because it is too expensive to get it harvested. But after you let it rot and drop, you have to go out and pick it up anyway in order to protect the soil. So I would hope that it does not include children of migrant workers who begin, when they come in and start harvesting in Florida, then they move up through the South, come into Pennsylvania and Ohio and end up in California generally. The youngsters have it difficult enough because they are being moved from school district to school district to school district. So I am concerned that the language would be broad enough that they would not have an exemption because I do not read an exemption for them in the legislation.”