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 61 STAT.] MEXICO-AGRICULTURAL WORKERS-MAR. 10, 1947 Mexican workers found illegally in the United States presently are employed in the State of Texas. SECOND: The Mexican Delegation, in view of the statement to which the preceding point refers, considers that it is confronted with a factual situation which was not created by the Government of Mexico, but which it is desirable to solve in benefit to the Mexican workers. Consequently it is disposed to recommend to its Govern- ment that, as an exceptional measure, it authorize the contracting of these workers in order that they may continue to lend their services in the State of Texas, on the understanding that this atti- tude will not constitute a precedent nor can it be invoked in the future, since the Government of Mexico remains firm in its deter- mination not to permit, under the protection of existing conventions, that persons of Mexican nationality be contracted to work in States of the United States in which there may exist discrimination against Mexicans, a problem which, on the other hand, in so far as Texas is concerned, seems to be on the road to a favorable solution, in view of the repeated proofs of friendship and of good will which the Honorable Beaufort Jester, Governor of said State, has shown towards Mexico. THIRD: The resolutions which fall under this additional memo- randum are subject to the same treatment mentioned in the tenth recommendation of the document of which this is an annex." DELEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES William G. MacLean Maurice L. Stafford MEXICAN DELEGATION Benito Coquet J. Jesds Castorena Manuel Aguilar Alfonso Guerra Arcadio Ojeda G. Jorge Medellin" I am requested to state also that, while my government is ready to comment informally as to the practicability of any contract proposed by the Mexican Government covering the terms of employment between United States employers and Mexican agricultural workers, my government cannot be a party to any contracts made or provide policing for the fulfillment of such contracts, as made clear in the discussions between the representatives of the two governments. The workers will have, however, the usual remedies or recourses available to residents in the United States in the same field of employment. I also wish to point out to Your Excellency that my government considers the present supplementary agreement as distinct and independent of that entered into between our two governments in connection with the recruitment of agricultural workers by representa- tives of the United States Department of Agriculture in the sense that the first has to do with contractual relations between Mexican laborers and United States employers, whereas the second has to do with contractual relations between Mexican laborers and the United States Government. 4107 Ante, p. 4099. Nonparticpaetlon of U. 8. Oovernment In Mexican contrcts.

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