Speech #760084362

Without objection. it is so ordered. The tables and statement are as follows: TABLE A.-Aliens admitted to the United States under the provisions of the Immigratton Act of 1924 from 1925 to 1935 [Compiled from the annual reports of the Commissioner General of Immigration and from figures furnished by the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization] 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 Total Total quota ----------- 164. 667 164. 667 164. 667 164. 667 164. 607 153. 714 153. 831 153.831 153. 831 153. 774 153.774 153.774 153.774 153.771 2.207.295 Quota visas issued ---- 160. 616 161.857 162. 396 162. 429 155. 912 150.879 48. 528 12.697 7.914 13. 900 17. 291 20.184 30. 898 45. 712 1.151.253 Percentage of quota im- [1.056.042 migration visas issued- 97.5 98.3 98.6 98.6 94.7 98.2 31.6 8.3 9.2 9.0 11.2 13.1 20.1 29.7 unused quotas] 50%+ Immigrant aliens 3 .------ 294.314 304. 488 335. 175 307. 255 275. 678 241.700 1 97. 139 35.576 23. 068 29.470 34.956 36.329 2 50. 244 67. 895 2.133.287 Nonimmigrant aliens .... 164.121 191.618 202.826 193. 376 199.649 204.514 183. 540 139.295 127.660 134. 434 144. 765 154.570 2186. 640 184. 802 2.411.810 Total alien admissions ---------- . 458. 435 496. 106 538.001 500.631 479.327 446.214 280.679 174. 871 150.728 163.904 179. 721 190.899 2231.884 252. 687 - 4.545.097 Aliens deported --------- 9.495 10.904 11.662 11..625 12. 908 16. 631 18.142 19.425 19.865 38.879 8.319 9.195 8.829 9. 275 ........... I President Hoover. after a Cabinet conference on Sept. 8. 1930. directed the Secretary of State to instruct consuls to rigidly take into consideration economic and unemployment conditions in the United States in connection with the provision of law excluding. and in issuing immigration and other visas to aliens "likely to become a public charge" (L. P. C.). that is. to construe "likely" as any possibility of their becoming a public charge. with theresult that immigration was administratively restricted and reduced from 446.214 aliens in 1930 to 280.679 for the fiscal year ending June 30. 1931 (although only commenced during the third month of the fiscal year) to 174.871 in 1832 and to 150.728 aliens or 35.576 "immigrant aliens" in 1932. In his annual messages for 1931 and 1932 the President called attention to the administrative restriction. and the urgent need of Congress putting such administrative restriction "on a basis of more substantive law." the House passing a joint resolution then 298 to 8S cutting quota immigration 90 percent. as now proposed in the ReynoldsStarnes bills (S. 407 and H. R. 3033). 2 President Roosevelt in 1937 directed a relaxation of the Hoover administrative restriction. the consuls being instructed to refuse a visa only where it seemed probable. instead of possible. that the alien would become a public charge after arrival here. Immigration at once responded. increasing from 190.899 aliens in 1936 to 252.697 in 1938. and probably will be about 300.000 this fiscal year. ending the 30th of this month. There was at once even a conspicuous increase in the number of destitute aliens deported. the number jumping from 40 in 1937 to 1.070 in 1938 and the cost of their deportation from $3.255 in 1937 to $107.502 in 1938 (House appropriations hearings. p. 249). Until we have alien registration as proposed in the ReynoldsStarnes. Johnson. and other bills. it will be impossible to tell how many aliens there are in the United States. or to get very far discovering them.