WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMMIGRATION 385

If those now proposing continuance of Mexican immigration will
pay proper wages, they will find that plenty of labor is now available
In this country. We believe this committee should recommend
limitation of Mexican immigration, bar the Filipino, and increase
the border immigration patrol.
We oppose consolidation of the customs, prohibition and immigra~
tion patrols.
At this time I should like to insert in the record four articles on the
question of Mexican immigration by Wallace Perry, editor of the
El Paso Post, who made the survey for the newspapers I mentioned
previously. They read as follows:

(By Wallace;Perry, editor of the El Paso Post)

Ev Paso, Tex., January 24, 1930.
Mexican immigration, which in recent years had grown to such volume that
labor leaders had begun to see in it a serious threat to the American standard of
wages, is decreasing.
The reason is the stricter supervision established by the State Department and
the Immigration Service, growing out of a popular demand for placing Mexicans
on a quota basis.
The present Mexican population in the United States is estimated at anywhere
from 1,000,000 to 3,000,000.
Immigration reached its peak in 1924, when 87,000 entered. In 1925, a $10
visa fee and $8 head tax were imposed and the number of legal admissions dropped
to 32,000, increasing to 42,000 in 1926 and 68,000 in 1927.
The figures include only those who came into the country legally. It is estimated
 that almost that many more came in by wading the Rio Grande between
}1 Paso and Brownsville or slipping across the mesquite-grown border between
El Paso and San Diego—-a 2,000-mile stretch for which there is a border patrol
of only about 400 men.
Tt was the 1927 increase that really started the mobilized demand for greater
restriction.
To ward off quota legislation fathered by Representative John Box of Texas,
in which it saw danger of diplomatic entanglements, the State Department in
February of last year called its Mexican consuls in session in Mexico City and
instructed them fo apply to Mexicans the same visa regulations that apply to
European countries. Simultaneously stricter regulations also were applied by
immigration inspectors. .
Here is how the plan worked out, as shown by Mexican immigration figures
for the past two fiscal vears:

Month

JULY oe oe eemccam sme mmmm mmm mmm emermeeaemmmasmmesses sees Ese smssS Sse sse se
ATIITEIE oem etm Sm 5 6 5 5 5 0 A 00 100 rm
BOD EOINDRL . eso eemm nnn mmmmmakm asm easemms senso essSnmencnos ans
OCLODRE oe oo ooo emma mmem amen mmmMmmmmemmAsmaeammmmesm oS MmAmA smn
NOVEINDET oo ooo oe ewmmamcm asec mmmem— === —cmmee oo eemmmom moe emmcoeswoosos
Deeenber oe eimcmmamm maemo mam a SR i
Ianuary.... meee BR A HS RT Sw
FODTUALY - eee ceaeommmmmm ems emmmmmemeememeesse ness emamesssessna sso
VAT CR oe coe eee een mAs mmA meme ems mmsme an esmeme eas oms esos
ADT viii ming wn sm mm mm mn mm emcimmemam am
WAY na smn pee Semin swims mm rem mem ———
June_..._..
Total oo emmarmm————

1927-28

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1,797
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5, 472
4,784
3,868
2, 889
2, 563
2, 649
2,726
1,857
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2, 407
5 993

87,765 | 38,480