President. in order not to delay the vote. I want simply to discuss this amendment. and I want to say that although I am pledged to the general principle embodied in this bill. if this amendment should continue to be part of the measure I shall feel it my duty to vote against the bill as a whole. because I think with this amendment the influx of Mexican labor will be far greater than it is under present conditions. under the arrangements being made by the State Department. Apparently. on a superficial reading of this amendment. the Commissioner General of Immigration and the Secretary of Labor may make certain restrictions which will he sufficient to safeguard the Mexicans who are imported under this arrangement. But I agree with the junior Senator from Alabama. that if these provisions can be enforced. it amounts to placing the Mexican immigrant under a state of peonage. and that if they can not be enforced. they open the gate wider than any arrangement we have ever had. What restrictions can be enforced after the Mexican citizen gets into this country? Are we going to be able to restrict his liberty of movement?
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