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The Crairman. Beggars, paupers, professional mendicants, and
prostitutes. -
Mr. Free. And they have to pay certain fees.
Mr. Davis. They have to pay the consular officers a one dollar fee
for formal application for a visa and $9 if the visa is issued, which
makes $10. The other fees they have to pay are not collected by the
consular service. .
Ty Crarrman. They have to pay other fees; and there is a head
tax of $8.
Mr. Ramey. They have now to pay a head tax if they come in
seasonal work?
Mr. Davis. I prefer not to go into that question or to attempt to
give technical information concerning administrative matters under
the jurisdiction of another department.
Mr. Ramey. I will withdraw the question, if you wish.
Mr. Davis. Thank you.
The CrairmMan. Proceed.
Mr. Davis. The figures that I have just given would indicate
that if the Mexican-born population of the United States is still
increasing at a rapid rate, ss may be the case, such increase is not
via channels which would be affected by the application of a quota
to Mexico, but would call for remedy in other directions. The
volume of new immigration for the past six months, and I believe
the figure is significant, is at an annual rate of under 5,000.
Mr. Box. Then we may assume this fact, that in most localities
throughout the United States this population has been increasing?
Mr. Davis. Unquestionably it has. The census figures indicate it.
Mr. Box. There is an urgent need for the better enforcement of
the laws we have.
Mr. Jenkins. According to his theory, Judge Box, no government
 can alleviate that situation because it is a question of fecundity——

Mr. Box (interposing). No; I am not talking about foreign-born.
The table over 10 years, according to the census figures, show it
bending upward, while our figures show it jumping backward.
Mr. Davis. Yes, sir.
Mr. Frere. They are coming in without count, surreptitiously.
The Cratrman. In due time it may be necessary to ask Congress,
for this committee, to organize three or four committees of three to
visit some of these centers where Mexicans are congregated in the
wintertime and spring.
Mr. CaBre. Will these bills lay the plans for reducing the quotas
from any country; that is, will fewer enter the United States from
the Western Hemisphere than are coming now?
Mr. Davis. I don’t have that information. }
Mr. Casre. Can you tell us about Canada and Mexico? We now
have 19,000 from Canada and there are 50,000 permitted to come in.
There is no reason for a quota unless they apply it uniformly to the
Peston Hemisphere. Can the gentleman answer the question about
fexico?
The Cuarrman. I think he has given us the figures and it will be
up to us to study his observations and statements of figures and find
out for ourselves.
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