New Britain herald., 1930-06-30
4 YEARS IMMIGRATION UNDFR NATIONAI ORIGINS

UNDER NATIONAL ORIGINS
 Today sees the end of the first fiscal year during which the new immigration quotas under the na- tional origins plan have been effect i've. This IS the improvement on the former quota system, which seeks to base immigration upon ratios Of races which existed in the country from its early days, rather than from 1890, as the earlier quota system had it.
 From Washington comes the infor- nation that virtually all the more important countries filled their quotas during the year, This would mean that there have been approxi- mately 150,OOo immigrants during the fiscal year. What q reduction this is over the days when there were no quota systems can be noted by referring to the total of immi- grants during 1914, the year before the war. In that fiscal year the total was 1,0a6,249
 But we didn't even get 15o, ,0o0 i'm migrants this year--not if met" im- migration IS calculated. According to figures issued the other day by the L. s. Immigration Bureau, which figures were as of May 1, some s5,- 900 aliens left the United States for permanent residence in Europe this year. That leaves us with 115,000 new immigrants for the year.
 It must be remembered, however, that immigration is not restricted from Canada, Mexico, and other in- dependent nations Of North, Central and South America, although immi- grants from those lands must obtain visas, The Immigration Bureau showed only 15,ooo immigrants from Mexico for permanent residence, with some $500 aliens leaving the United States 10 settle permanently in Mexico. The number Of immi- grants from Canada during the year were about 65,00o, or more than arc permitted 10 come 10 this country from Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the largest quota countries,
 So much holds good for official inn migration. What takes place unofH- eially IS another matter entirely, and one which does not show up in gov ernment statistics The borders of Mexico are long. and so are the borders Of Canada. That there is bootlegglng in the lmmi grafton market there can be no doubt. There is even bootlegging along the sea- coast, according 10 reports, where immigrants who ship as steam nship hands obtain shore leave and then overstay their leaves. Occasionally, but very occasionally, government i agents come upon caravan of boot 1 legged immigrants, and then a story about the catch and deportations . gets into the papers; 1t is probable, however, that most Of the time the bootlegging of immigrants is sue 1 cessful. How much of 8 population 1 increase such bootlegging amounts ! to in figures is not known. although alarrnists place the totals as re- markedly high.
 It would be interesting to compare ! the emigration of the Polish race the United States in 1914 with it's emigration here today under the l quota system; but this is not pos 1 sible because in 1914 Poland as a ! NaIlOl QlQ not e&lSt ana lUlHil grants from what is now Poland were in- cluded in the immigration from Russia, Germany and Austria. The
 Polish quota today is only s.524 a year. In the old days New Britain alone nearly g6t as many Polish i'm,
 migrants as that in some years.
 Comparisons of Italian immisra- ton in 1914 and today is easy. IT 1914 Italian immigration totalled
 2S3,738 persons, this at the time be-
 ing 26 per cent of the total of inn
 migrants which came into the
 country from abroad. This total wa'
 higher than all others. it's nearest ap.
 proach being immigration from Rus.