IMMIGRATION RESTRICTED.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2297, 2 July 1921, Page 4

IMMIGRATION RESTRICTED.

UNITED STATES’ NEW YAW

ASSIMILATION OF ALIENS

Legislation restricting immigration into the United States came into operation in America early this month. The new law applies only to persons who intend taking up their residence in the United States and assuming American citizenship. A cablegram received at the American consulate, advises that immigrants from New Zealand will be limited to 50 each year. Technical students, dental students, and nurses, who frequently visit the United States, are exempt from this iimitation, as' they, of course, are all travellers. The new Act, known as the “Three per Cent’’ Act. was introduced for the purpose of regulating the assimilation of aliens into America’s population, and it limits immigration of any one nationality to three per cent, of the number of American citizens of that nationality already resident in the States. In accordance with this principle, the number of Australians allowed entry into America for the purpose of taking up residence is limited to 270 a year. Newspaper reports indicate that

European immigration was controlled during last month to the extent of admitting a-possible maximum of 5,823 persons from the United Kingdom, 930 from Norway, 531 from Sweden, 433 from Denmark, 27(3 from the Netherlands, and 119 from Belgium. The total number of immigrants to the United States last year was 430,000. The new law is not calculated to affect New Zealand emigration to any extent, as will be judged from the fact that last year only about 15 New Zealanders emigrated to the United States in order to take up permanent residence.