Under the present. no antecedent contract is necessary. and it would seem to suffice if there is a promise of em1:907. ployment sufficiently explicit to induce those to whom it is addressed to apply to some particular employer in the expectation of receiving employment of a specified kind at specified compensation. The proviso indicates that Congress did not use the word promise in its strict legal meaning. but rather in the sense of an assurance or Inducement to encourage aliens to migrate. The proviso withdraws from the operation of the section the inducements advertised by States and immigration bureaus of States offered for immigration to such States. These advertisements do not ordinarily contain promises of employment in the nature of specific proposals. but contain assurances of opportunity for employment and of the remuneration that may be expected. The office of a proviso Is to carve an exemption out of the enacting clause. to except something which would otherwise have been within it (Wayman v.
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