There is no agreement with the Government of Canada with respect to the importation of agricultural laborers to be employed seasonally on the farms of Maine. when Canadian laborers go there to dig potatoes. It has not been necessary to have such an agreement. Neither would it have been necessary to have an agreement with the Government of Mexico. except that the Mexican Government. some years ago. changed its policy and decided that citizens of Mexico who lived along the border. and who had been accustomed to enter the United States. just as Canadians do. with a crossing card. after examination by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. and a bond given for their return within a given period of time. should no longer be allowed to enter the United States. That was the old arrangement between the United States and Mexico. and it worked entirely satisfactorily. But the Mexican Government. in its wisdom. decided that the Mexicans residing along the border had acquired an agricultural education. so to speak. by having worked on American farms. and had learned many of our methods of agriculture and that. therefore. they should not be allowed to continue to return to the United States.
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