The Bureau of Immigration has bad no increase In Its force since 1911. when we received an increase of eight clerks. rho present estimate contemplates an increase of one clerk each of class 2. class 1. $1.000. and $900. Now. that can le explained by the Increase In our work. we have up to this time been borrowing help as we needed it from the Division of Information. which Is provided for separately In this schedule. and we have reached the limit that we can attain in that regard without defeating altogether the purpose for which that division was created and exists. NoV. we do not keep office statistics. We have no time and no force to keep statistics of office workthat Is. of the number of letters written. and matters of that hindhut I have some figures here which will serve to show the committee what the immediate present pressing Increase has been. One of tie functions of this bureau is to Issue warrants of arrest and deportation looking to the removal from the United States of aliens who are here in violation of law. The total number of warrant cases for the last fiscal year was 3.461. The number for the first six months of this fiscal year is 2.359.
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