The latter want to work under decent conditions and at living wages. It is for the benefit of Mexican peons and those who import and employ them. Commissioner General Hull throws further light on the character and effect of the "plan." "arrangement." "understanding." or "agreement" when he reminds us in his denialapology letter that it accommodates foreign pauper peons who are unable to pay the fees required for their admission and their importers and employers who are unwilling to advance such fees and forbidden by law to do it. by saying thatThis particular class of aliens * * * seldom are * * * able to meet the fiscal requirements of the immigration laws upon the occasion of their entry. as they are more or less an improvident people. Chief Supervisor Wixon threw light upon its character when he explained. that its purpose is the very opposite of the purpose of the law. The law says that� * * any alien who shall have entered the United States by water at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officials. or by land at any place other than one designated as a port of entry for aliens by the Commissioner General of Immigration. or at any time not designated by immigration officials. or who enters without Inspec. tion. shall. upon the warrant of the Secretary of Labor. be taken into custody and deported. Mr. Wixon. in a statement submitted to him and several ol his superiors before I used it. said: It is absolutely untrue that I have issued any order whatever in regard to deportation of Mexican laborers * * . In fact. we hav been working for weeks along lines exactly the reverse. (CONGRES. SIGNAL RECORD.
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Mexicans are described as 'improvident people' who cannot pay the fees required for their admission.