Our only chance now to correct those weaknesses in the program. and to protect the interests of our own farm labor. our other labor groups who have been hurt by the infiltration of Mexican workers. and the country itself which is presented with a terrific social problem. is to adopt some of the perfecting amendments to the Poage bill which we are now considering. A great many of those Mexicans who were brought in and are being brought in at the present time never return to their own country. and they have been a recurring problem not only in certain agricultural areas. but in industrial areas as wellnot only in the border States. but in other States throughout the country ever since. The Poage bill eliminates the bonding requirement formerly required of employers of Mexican contract labor to insure their return to Mexico. That elimination promises to cause a multiplication of the problems connected with the Mexicans who remain in this country illegally. and it should be reinstated. Even greater than the difficulties caused by the contract nationals who remain here are those resulting from the hordes of wetbacks. illegal Mexican entrants who stream across the borders.
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Mexicans are described as infiltrating labor groups and creating a terrific social problem.