Because of this failure President Hoover requested the Department of State to enforce the law more rigidly. especially the clause prohibiting entry if there was any probability of the applicant becoming a public charge. This additional rigidity of enforcement resulted in a general reduction of 90 percent. When President Roosevelt came to the Presidency he continued this policy. It was relaxed in many instances over the protest of many Congressmen. From January 1. 1937. it 1has been quietly relaxed. with the result that immigration in 1937 showed nearly a hundred percent increase from some countries. This increase was very much larger from Germany and Poland than from any other countries. The total increase of aliens entering in 1937 over 1936 was 22 percent.
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