Speech #740160798

I further called attention to the fact that thousands of Filipinos had been lured to American territory by selfish employers of labor. who offered higher wages than are paid in the Philippines. but wages which were much lower than the wage scale prevailing in the United States. Since the passage of this act employment agencies exploiting Filipino labor in the United States have been carrying on a campaign of false propaganda against the accomplishment of the humanitarian purposes proposed in the act. Contrary to many of the rumors which have been spread in some sections of the. country this is not a deportation measure. No Filipino making application for return to the Philippines under this act is deported from the United States. He voluntarily asks that he be returned to his homeland. and the United States agrees to provide him passage and subsistence. He can return to the United States under the same conditions and in accordance with the same requirements that any of the other 13.000.000 Filipinos can come to the United States.