1,756 Jewish aliens, a little over one half per cent. of the total number of 339,054 Jewish immigrants who were admitted to the United States during the ten years between 1921 and 1930 were deported during that period from the United States, according to figures collected by Mrs. Cecilia Razovsky Davidson, the Director of the Department of Service to the Foreign Born of the National Council of Jewish Women. Altogether 92,157 aliens were deported in the course of the ten years, out of the total of 4,107,209 immigrants of all races and nationalities admitted, making a total of 2.2 per cent. of deportations, four times the proportion of Jewish deportations.
Eight hundred and eighty-nine Jews were deported in the last five years, 72.3 per cent. being sent out of the country on charges of illegal entry in comparison with 57 per cent. for the same reason for all deportations. Seventeen per cent. of the Jewish deportees were sent out of the country either because they had become public charges from conditions arising prior to their entry or because they were likely to become public charges. Only 9.2 per cent. of the Jews were deported for criminal offences as compared with 14.2 per cent. in the case of the total number of deportations.
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