Monday, Aug. 22, 1927
Fiscal Figures
Last week the Department of Commerce announced the following immigration figures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927:
Alien arrivals 538,001
Alien departures 253,508
Net increase* 284,493 The ten leading countries, from which immigrants came, were:
Canada/- 81,506
Mexico/- 67,721
Germany 48,513
Irish Free State 28,054
Great Britain 24 160
Italy 17,297
Poland 9,211
Sweden 8,287
Norway 6,068
France 4,405
Ten other regions although having quotas of 100 each, send no immigrants to the U. S.: French Cameroon, Ethiopia, Muscat, Nepal, Tanganyika, British Togoland, French Togoland, Nauru, New Guinea, Yap.
From the U. S. were deported 11,662 aliens during the fiscal year 1927. Principal reasons: entering without proper visa, entering sur reptitiously, being criminal or immoral, being mentally or physically defective.
*The net increase in the alien population of the U. S. for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, was only 268,351. /-Non-quota country.