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I would naturally incline toward the one thats not Latino .... Most employers would rather play it safe .... " Because of these new screening processes. Hispanics dropped from 75 percent to 50 percent of the companys workforce.$ The Chairman of the Texas Governors Task Force on Immigration stated in July 1985 that the Task force "heard from a number of individuals in Texas. including some employers. who stated that they would be more likely to discriminate against Hispanics if employer sanctions passed. in order to avoid any possibility that they would be in violation of the law. Employers in these examples did not act with intent to discriminate. They responded to the threat of penalties by "playing It safe". in the process.