Show REPORT ON immigration aha ah report of harry A hull commissioner of immigration for december 1928 completing the first half of the fiscal year discloses some interesting berestin te statistics and seems to s show how diat that the immigration act is is on the whole carrying out the intentions of congress and the american people during the last six months of the calendar year a total of 2581 aliens were admired to the united states and at the same time aliens departed from our shores this resulted in an increase of the alien population of the country to the number of an average of about per month for the corresponding period in 1927 the net 1 gain ain in the number of our immigrants gr ants was so that we received nearly less immigrants in the last half of the calendar year 0 of f 1928 than in the last half of the calendar year 1927 in outlining the nationality of the immigrants coming in during the last six months of 1928 the report shows that immigrants immigrant from countries in the western hemisphere totaled and from europe of the immigrant aliens from the americas came from canada from mexico and from the west indies central and south america and newfoundland nearly three fourths of the european immigrants came from germany great britain italy the irish free state and the scandinavian countries these countries contributing 19 agg and respectively compared with the same months of the year 1927 canadian immigration decreased deci eased per cent and european 24 per cent the statistics also show a decline in arrivals from mexico while the number of immigrant aliens admitted from that countr country y dropped per cent during the year ending last june as co compared ill with the previous year there aps was a further decline in the following five months of 14 2 per cent and in in december last the decrease amounted to per cent as compared P ared with the corresponding periods of the year preceding the report would seem to indicate indica e that on the whole our immigration laws are doing what they were intended to do this is as it should be the law is not perfect and there will doubtless be changes from time to time but if the wishes of the american people are consulted and they doubtless will be any changes in the law will vill be in the line of strengthening and not weakening it what wo ve want is a still further raising of the standard of immigration so far as this is possible and a tightening of the lines to prevent the bootlegging of immigrants we hear a great deal about the army and navy as our two chief arms of defense and rightly so but our immigration law is to prevent the inflow of those who may become enemies ditl within lin the gates of persons w who ho may be out of sn sympathy with our ideals of government and bent on destroying from within the principle of restricted immigration has completely demonstrated it its worth wort th to the american people |