Now. I shall read to you the law. This matter has been before the department. and there has been a request that prosecutions be made: persons hereinafter called contract laborers who have been Induced. assisted. encouraged. or solicited to migrate to this country by offers or promises of employment. whether such offers or promises are true or false or in consequence of agreements. oral. written or printed. express or implied. to perform labor in this country of any kind. skilled or unskilled. Witnesses appeared before our committee. and there is no question but that over 90 per cent of those Mexicans who come here come in violation of the law. and the people know it. They go down there to the border and drive them across the border like you would drive sheep through a chute or cattle in a corral. and this man testifies they have a man in charge that places them on the train. and that he locks the doors and hauls them to Gary and to the railroads and other places for employment.
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Over 90% of Mexicans who come here come in violation of the law.