I feel that they would not vote for an amendment which in effect constitutes a legal state of peonage or slavery in America. In my judgment. that is what this amendment does. I just want to call the Senates attention to the amendment in order that they may understand what they are voting on: The Commissioner General of Immigration. with the approval of the Secretary of Labor. under such regulations as he. with the approval of the Secretary of Labor. may prescribeNow note: (including the requirement of bond with sufficient security or other guaranty to Insure that. at the expiration of the prescribed period or upon failure to maintain the status tinder which admitted. the alien will depart from the United States). may. during any year. admit temporarily as nonimmigrants. for periods of not more than eight months. otherwise admissible aliens from tny country of the Western Hemisphere. Either that creates a state of peonage or it will be ineffective. In other words. it provides that if a thousand Mexicans come into America. some one must give bond that those Mexicans will be carried back to Mexico when they have completed their labor.
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