Immigration into the United States has more than doubled since 1922, the Bureau of Immigration declared today in its annual report to the Secretary of Labor. The figure increased from 522,919 in 1923 to 706,896 in 1924.
The increase was principally due, the report showed, to the greater number of immigrants coming from European countries. Immigration from Turkey and Southern and Eastern Europe decreased from nearly a million in 1922 to 150,000 in 1924.
The principal increases were shown as follows: From England, Scotland and Wales, from 25,123 in 1922 to 59,940 in 1924; Ireland, 10,579 to 17,111; Germany, 17,931 to 75,091; Scandinavian countries, 14,625 to 35,577; British North America, 46,810 to 200,690, and Mexico, 19,551 to 89,336.
Under the Quota Limit Law, the report stated, 50-called “birds of passage” have practically disappeared.
“For a long period prior to the World War,” the report said, “the number of aliens leaving the United States was fully one-third as great as the number admitted, but the exodus declined rapidly during the three years when the Quota Law was in operation until in the last year only 76,789 aliens departed compared with 706,896 admitted.”
The principal racial stocks represented in the immigrants this year were shown to be German, English, Mexican, Scotch, Italian, Hebrew, Scandinavian, Polish and African.
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