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Presidential Paper Historical Series: 113 - White House Statement On Government Policies To Reduce Immigrationby President Herbert Hoover: 1929-1933
113 - White
House Statement on Government Policies To Reduce Immigration
PRESIDENT HOOVER, to protect American workingmen from
further competition for positions by new alien immigration
during the existing conditions of employment, initiated action
last September looking to a material reduction in the number
of aliens entering this country. At his request, the
Department of State examined the operation of the immigration
law and reported that the only important provision of the law
useful in the circumstances is that one requiring the
exclusion of those who are liable to become public charges.
Since then consular officials, charged with the duty of
issuing visas to intending immigrants, have carefully examined
each applicant. A tabulation completed today shows that during
the first 5 months ending February 28, 1931, of the
administration of the "likely to become a public charge"
provision approximately 96,883 aliens did not receive visas
who normally would have immigrated into this country. Reports from American consuls assigned to 21 countries
whose annual quotas total 148,466 of the total quota of
153,714 indicate that only 10,277 visas were issued during the
5-month period against a possible 74,233 allowable under law,
or an under-issue of 86 percent. Incomplete reports from the remaining 46 countries with
annual quotas totalling 5,248 indicate an issue of 270 visas,
a reduction of 90 percent. Canada and Mexico furnished 70 and 19 percent,
respectively, of the 61,504 nonquota visas reported issued
during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1930, remaining 11
percent having been issued to natives of Central and South
America. During the 5-month period involved only 3,876 visas were
issued to natives of Canada and 884 visas to natives of
Mexico, as compared to 15,997 and 19,336 visas, respectively,
in the corresponding 5 months of the last completed normal
fiscal year, thus representing decreases of 76 and 95
percent. NOTE: For the inauguration of the new immigration policy,
see 1930 volume, Item 288.
Tables released with the statement follow: TABLE I.--IMMIGRATION QUOTA VISA STATISTICS OCTOBER 1930, TO FEBRUARY 1931, INCLUSIVE, COUNTRIES WITH
QUOTAS OF 300 OR MORE See legend and footnotes at end of
table. Legend: 1: Half of
annual quota
1 NOTE.--The above figures represent visas actually reported
as issued under each quota. In some instances reports on other
visas for which quota numbers have been allotted to distant
consulates are received by the quota control officers too late
for inclusion in reports to the Department of State. The
figures given for visas issued are therefore in some cases
provisional in character and are slightly less than the total
obtained at a later date. OCTOBER 1930, TO FEBRUARY 1931, INCLUSIVE, COUNTRIES WITH
QUOTAS _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ October
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101 423 _______________________________________________________________________ 1 Includes 46 countries, most of which have quotas of 100
annually. TABLE III.--NONQUOTA IMMIGRATION VISA STATISTICS REGARDING
NATIVES OF CANADA OCTOBER 1930, TO FEBRUARY 1931, INCLUSIVE, WITH COMPARISON
OF SAME PERIOD LAST FISCAL YEAR _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ TABLE IV.--NONQUOTA IMMIGRATION VISA
STATISTICS OCTOBER 1930, TO FEBRUARY 1931, INCLUSIVE, WITH COMPARISON
OF SAME PERIOD LAST FISCAL YEAR BEFORE THE PRESENT
ADMINISTRATIVE MEASURES WERE PLACED IN OPERATION _______________________________________________________________________
Reprinted with permission from John Wolley and Gerhard Peters of the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara at the American Presidency Project.
This is part of the presidential paper historical series featuring past presidential public papers related to immigration law. The papers of our past Presidents show the impact of immigration law in American history. We thank the efforts of the American Presidency Project who have gathered these important archival documents.
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