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It made for a feeling of friendliness between the people. As an illustration of these constant crossings at places like Nogales. where the city in Arizona and the city in Mexico are separated only by the width of a street. I read from the annual report of the Commissioner General of Immigration for 1928. on page 10. under the heading of " Immigration from Mexico" : Hundreds of thousands of aliens and citizens residing on either side of the boundary. mainly. in towns contiguous thereto. cross and recross daily or periodically upon social or business errands. Treating each entry of these " crossers ". as a separate transaction. and adding thereto all other transactions. the total volume of entrants is estimated to have been approximately 27.000.000 for the past year. As on the Canadian border. the examinations of these regular "crossers" is greatly facilitated by the use of identification cards. Twentyseven million crossings annually on the Mexican border. as estimated by the Commissioner General of Immigration !. Certainly that figure demonstrates the intimacy of the contacts between the two countries. For some years Mexico and the Mexican people bad more or less suspicion of the United States and its intentions as to the annexation of territory.