Tire statistics for 190S. 11109. and 1910 show that 55 out of every 100 immligrants retulrn home. It will therefore be seen that the ebb and flow of the labor market has evidently taken care of any surllUS inumigration. But outt of the 1.471.659 immigrants. 77 per cent were either farn laborers or labors unskilled. doing work of tile kind that is least desirable to American born or educated workmen. The same is true of the Croatian find Shlvonian. the North Italian. the Magyar. and the Slovak. and to a less extent amiong the Polish. During the years 1899 to 1910. taking the six races given. there arrived in the United States 3.364.558 inmigrants who had occupations. Of these about 1.100.000 were farm laborers and about 1.500.000 were ordinary laborers. Had this bill been in operation during this period about 1.200.000 of these immigrants would have been excluded. After consulting the report of the Bureau of Immigration. which shows the number of foreigners leaving the United States during 1908. 1909. and 1910. and by applying the same ratio to the period of 1899 to 1910. I find that over 1.640.000. or about 50 per cent of the foreigners from the six aforesaid countries have left our shores for other climes. The permanent growth of our foreign population from these races has therefore becone much smaller than the reports of the Immigration Bureau would lead us to believe. The recent report of the Department of Agriculture shows that only 27 per cent of the tillable land of the United States is actually under cultivation. This report is based upon the reports of over 35.000 correspondents.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that these groups do work that American-born workers find undesirable.