Law's Result

Albert Johnson, Representative from Washington, Chairman of the House Immigration Committee, made public figures he had obtained as to the workings of the new Immigration Act during its first six months of operation, as compared with the figures under the old Act for the entire previous year:

1) Number of quota immigrants admitted from July 1 to Dec. 31, 1924: 66,749 (40% of the new possible annual quota of 164,667). The quota of the previous year was nearly 358,000.

2) Number of aliens debarred from entrance: 13,024 (30,284 debarred during the entire previous year).

3) Number of deportations for these six months: 4,448 (the rate for the previous year was less than half as great--the the total for 1923-24 being 4,294).

4) Net increase of population (in coming less outgoing aliens) : 97,389 (the same figure for the whole of 1923-24 was 662,557).

5) Largest number of immigrants received from any one country: 20,419, from Germany.