DROPPING FAST

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 144, 16 December 1930, Page 11

DROPPING FAST

Immigration to the United States has been falling rapidly as the result of the economic bar imposed by President Hoover and the State Department on 9th September. Mr. Harry E. Hull, Commissioner of Immigration, forecasted last month that it would shortly be limited to members of families of those already in America and the "very desirable better type immigrants." A wholesale reduction is shown by the first figures assembled since the new executive restrictions went into effect. The total immigrants in September dropped 36 per cent, under the period last year, and this, it is emphasised, is only a beginning. Immigration reduction duo to business depression in the United States began before President Hoover's announcement on 9th September. Figures show that immigration during the first three months of the present fiscal year compared with a similar period of last year represented a decrease from Europe of 26.9 per cent.; Canada 44.7, and Mexico 72.9 per cent. The decrease from Mexico followed the adoption a year ago by the State Department of virtually the same policy which in September it brought to bear on Canadian and European immigration. By requiring greater guarantees of self-support, Mexican immigration has been reduced to a more trickle of its former volume. "The invasion of this country by cheap labour from Mexico," Mr. Hull has stated, "has practically ceased, and the number coming from Canada to compete with American labour has dropped almost to the vanishing point." A statement issued from Commissioner Hull's office said: "From now on the coming of unattached labourers from Europe will be very materially reduced, as has been the ease with such labour from Canada and Mexico. In the immediate future our immigration from all sources • will be practically limited to the members of families of those who have already been admitted to the United States and the very desirable better-type immigrants." ___^_^_^____