A sharp reduction in immigration from southern and eastern Europe and an increase from northern and western Europe, declared by immigration to be the chief purpose of immigration legislation for the last 25 years, has been achieved under the new immigration law. W.W. Husband, assistant secretary of labor, after analyzing figures covering the last 10 months operation of the new law, declared yesterday that the result of the new law had been gratifying to the immigration bureau.
The bureau’s figures, he said, showed that almost 87 per cent of all European immigrants admitted to this country during the period were of the northern and western European stock, whereas during the years preceding the war, 80 per cent were of southern and eastern European stock.
This shift in nations was credited by Mr. Husband to the section of the new immigration law which provides that a number of national equivalent to 2 per cent of the number resident in this country of like origin in 1880 may enter the United States annually.
The figures disclosed that during the first 10 months’ operation of the law, only 26,000 immigrants of southern and eastern European stocks had been admitted, while immigrants of northern and western European stocks number 186,000.
Immigration from Italy for the 10 months was shown to have totaled 5,503. During the same period there was an emigration of Italians totaling 24,951. Only 810 persons were admitted from Greece, while emigration of these nationals totaled 5,797.
Of the English, there were 43,504 admissions, and 7,482 left the country while Irish admitted numbered 35,213, against an emigration of 1,165.
From the front page of The Graphic, Nashville, N.C., July 9, 1925
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