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Show Fewer Immigrants In 1914 the number of aliens entering en-tering the United States reached the figures, 1,218,480. In five of the proceeding nine years more than a million immigrants arrived in America and became a part of our social and industrial fabric. Because of the problems which such unrestricted immigration was creating in 1921 a law establishing certain quotas for each country was passed, and since that yeal the number of immigrant aliens has been reduced considerably. Tor the present fiscal year it is estimated esti-mated that only about 96,000 immigrants im-migrants have been admitted, which is the smallest number in sixty-nine years, according to the Department of Labor. An interesting inter-esting fact also, is that during the recent months more aliens have emigrated than the number of im migrants who came in. For the fiscal year as a whole the number of departures was only about two-thirds two-thirds of the entries. The Federal Government is gradually grad-ually tightening up its enforcement enforce-ment of the immigration law- by deporting aliens found in this country who have entered illegally. Secretary Doak estimates that there are about 400,000 deportable aliens unlawfully residing in the United States, including both those who have entered in violation of our laws or whose conduct since their arrival in this country has been such as to justify expulsion. Last year about 19,000 were deported and the expectation is that this number num-ber will be increased as the machinery ma-chinery for enforcement of our laws becomes more thorough and efficient |