(SUE: Please note was not able to call up "detail" online - items in brackets may not have been truly decipherable)
Europe as an Emigrant-Exporting Continent 1379
them and comparative proverty is widespread, and these barriers, together with the head-tax requirement of $8, are incentives to illegal entry.
The illegal entry of aliens from Canada has also increased with the advent of more restrictive laws. This is true to some extent of the Canadians themselves, but it is especially true of Europeans, who in increasing numbers appear to be seeking entry into Canada with the real purpose of getting themselves into a more advantageous position for entry under the quota law, or of evading that and other laws altogether.
Reliable information has been received to the effect that there are now in existence numerous far-reaching organizations that take the alien from his home in Europe, secure a passport for him (a fraudulent one if necessary), purchase his steamship passage, place him on the ship, arrange for his entry into Cuba, Canada, or Mexico, and later conduct him by various underground routes into the United States - all for a fixed price.
* * * If we would successfully prevent wholesale smuggling and the unlawful entry of inadmissible aliens, our wholly inadequate border guard or patrol must be increased.
Deportation of aliens (p. 53). - The work of deporting aliens unlawfully in the country could be greatly extended if ample funds were available. Because of this lack of funds it has been impossible to make a systematic canvass of the various penal and other public institutions throughout the country with a view to the deportation of alien inmates who may be unlawfully in the country. The law provides, and even directs, that such an inquiry shall be made from time to time, but this has not been possible to any great extent for the reason stated.
A total of 3,661 aliens were deported under warrant proceedings during the present fiscal year as compared with 4,345 during the fiscal year of 1922. Some of the principal causes of deportation, and the races or peoples involved, are set forth in the following tables:
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Causes for deportation
Likely to become a public charge...1,888
Criminals...394
Mental diseases or defects...319
Prostitutes, procurers, and other immoral classes...209
Unable to read...262
Entered without inspection...229
Under per centum limit act...151
Under Chinese exclusion act...115
Other causes ...704
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Aliens deported, after entering the United States, during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1923, by races or peoples
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Race or people&Number&Race or people&Number
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African (black)...&70&Lithuanian...&9
Armenian...&9&Magyar...&21
Bohemian and Moravian (Czech)...&7&Mexican...&1,912
Bulgarian, Serbian, and Montenegrin...&47&Polish...&[63]
Chinese...&224&Portuguese...&37
Croatian and Slovenian...&18&Rumanian...&21
Cuban...&7&Russian...&37
Dalmatian, [B]omian, and Her[te]govinian...&4&Ruthenian ([Russniak])...&27
Dutch and Finnish...&24&Scandinavian (Norwegian, Danes, and&&
East Indian...&[5]1&[indent for turnover]Sweden...&78
English...&401&Scotch...&149
Finnish...&17&Slovak...&20
French...&302&Spanish...&1[5]1
German...&121&Spanish American...&22
Greek...&83&Syrian...&20
Hebrew...&99&Turkish...&3
Irish...&137&Welsh...&2
Italian (north)...&10&West Indian (except Cuban)...&3
Italian (south)...&188&Other peoples...&39
Japanese...&109&&[column-width score]
Korean...&1&[indent]Total...&3,651
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