U.S.A. IMMIGRANTS
DEPARTURES EXCEED ENTRIES. PreSo Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, April 12. The tide of immigration - to the United States has ,been turned for the first time in history, so that more persons are now leaving this country than are entering it. under the immigration restrictions there are ten thousand fewer entrants annually than hitherto. At the same time, under the provisions of .tlie general immigration law the Federal Government is' paying the cost of the deportation of all the aliens in U.S.A. who volunteer to return to their home land. Such returning migrants total 200 persons per month, to which is to he added a regular total of 1500 alien deportees each month composing those who entered the country illegally. The heaviest voluntary movement of people returning to their own countries is now occurring to the south west. Approximately 10,000 are going back to Mexica each month, because of the unemployment in UtS.A. They are going at their own costs.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1931, Page 2
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