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Show U. S. Border Is Crossed by 48,311,323 in Yer Washington. The Labor department revealed that 48,318.302 people aliens and citizens crossed or attempted to cross the American borders during the year ended June 30. Only 7.0G-J of this army were denied admission. In a report to Secretary Doak, Commissioner Com-missioner General Harry E. Hull of the Immigration bureau said those who cross the Mexican and Canadian borders cause the most trouble. The ineligible alien and the alien smuggler also were described as serious factors. Aliens questioned by immigration inspectors chiefly at Detroit, Buffalo, Niagara Falls and El Palo, during the year numbered 22,862.007 and citizens quizzed totaled 23.000,022. Besides these 015,0-12 alien sea-men and 333,-160 333,-160 citizens seamen were examined. A total of 35,567 aliens who wished to live in the United States were admitted. ad-mitted. The others questioned were tourists or persons who cross to nearby near-by border points for various purposes, but live in Canada or Mexico. The immigration border patrol during dur-ing the year captured 22,735 ineligible aliens, an increase of 231 over the previous year, and 14.0 smugglers were arrested. |