Mr. President. this amendment is offered for the purpose of taking care of a matter which has developed in connection with immigrant farm labor. There were 111.518 farm labor immigrants who came into this country to help harvest the 1949 crops. Under our arrangements with the Government of Mexico and our own Immigration Bureau. the farmer who contracts for the laborer is required to give a bond in the sum of $25. to guarantee the return of the laborer across the border after completion of the contract. In 1948 the Congress appropriated an additional $250.000 to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. for the purpose of returning to the border persons known as "skip contracts." When a farmer brings a laborer into this country. who undertakes to perform labor on a contract basis. the farmer or contractor is required to assume certain obligations. He has certain conditions and obligations under the contract which he must perform. Among those obligations is the return of the worker to the border when the labor has been performed and the contract terminated.
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