I understand that and also that the penalty bond which used to be in force requiring each employer to put up $25. which was forfeited if he did not return to Mexico. has been eliminated and the Poage bill now provides that if a worker is not returned and later is apprehended. then the employer shall pay to the Government what it would have cost to take the worker from the farm to the reception center. If the worker gets away and is never caught. the employer does not pay anything. If he had to pay $15 transportation in the first place. he could give the Mexican $5 and say: Get lost. and you save yourself $10. That is exactly what is permitted in the bill. It gives an incentive to skipping. The immigration people estimate that if the Poage bill passes 50 percent of the contract labor will likely skip. At the present time about 20 percent skip. even with the $25 penalty in force.
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