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1 Niles Carpenter, Relative Population Densities and Immigration Policy of the United States 1 (1925)

handle is hein.immigration/rpdipus0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RELATIVE POPULATION DENSITIES AND THE IMMIGRATION POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES On July 1, 1924, the United States, after four years of experi- mentation and controversy, definitely embarked upon a restrictive immigration policy as regards Europe, the Near East, and Africa, and extended its policy of exclusion as regards the Orient. A summary review of the trend of immigration before and after the adoption of this new policy serves to demonstrate how drastic it is and how pro- foundly it already has begun to react upon the migratory tendencies of the world's population. During the decade 1900-1910,' the net immigration to this country-the bulk of it from Europe-was about 5,365,000, or slightly under 55% of the natural increase of the native population. During the three months following the be- ginning of the operation of the present immigration law, the net im- migration was at the rate of 3,244,320 per decade, of which over half, or 1,898,310, represented immigration from Mexico, Canada, and other portions of the western hemisphere, which are not now quota- limited, but which-as the Secretary of Labor has recently pointed out2-will presently have to be put under a quota to make the new restrictive policy completely effective. The total, exclusive of the immigration from the Western hemisphere, was at the rate of only 1,346,010 per decade, or but about 13% of the natural increase of the native population during the decade 1910-1920. There seem to have been two general motives underlying the very widespread popular sentiment to which this new policy gave expres- sion. On the one hand, there was a belief that various national and racial groups were unsuitable for amalgamation with the Ameri- NOTE: This paper is substantially the same as one read before the American Sociological Society in Chicago, December 30, 1924. Some verbal changes have been made; the foot- notes have been amplified; and cognizance has been taken of certain criticisms developed in the discussion of the original paper. (1) The decade 1910-1920 was so affected by the World War that it is valueless for comparative purposes. The figures for net immigration 1900-1910, and for population increase 1900-1920 are from Rossiter's census monograph, Increase of Population. The data on net immigration since July, 1924, are calculated from the current bulletins of the United States Commissioner of Immigration. (2) Associated Press dispatch, December 8, 1924, summarizing Annual Report.

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