National origins provision of immigration law

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Identifikator:: 1796380105

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-196168

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: National origins provision of immigration law

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: III, 171 S

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Statement of Samuel W. Boggs, geographer, Department of State

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NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW 5 the statistics of mother tongue for the 1920 and the 1910 censuses; and, of course, that subdivides the statistics for each country in terms of the number of each mother tongue from that country, and gives us a picture not simply of the foreign-born themselves, which were also reported, but reflects really the immigration of a considerable period, the period in which their immigrant fathers came to this country. Senator Remp. To the extent that you can check those figures against the mother tongue, that is more certain than the 1890 census, is it not? Mr. Bocas. I think that without any question it is. Senator Rep. So that you have got the first of your four ele- ments settled in terms of post-war geography. You have got the second one subject to pre-war geography corrections? Mr. Bocas. Yes. Senator Regn, But checked by mother-tongue statistics? Mr. Bocas. Yes. Senator Reep. In getting your 1890 basis you do not have that check by mother tongue? Mr. Bocas. No; because our mother-tongue statistics begin in 1910. These two, may I add, account for one-third of the total quota. Senator Reep. To the extent of that third, you have a greater certainty under the national-origins basis, I take it, than you have ander 1890°¢ Mr. Boges. That is true. Senator Reep. How about the remainder? Mr. Bocas. Dividing between the two, the colonial stock and the “ grandchildren ” (as we speak of it) part of the post-colonial or immigrant stock: The Census Bureau has done a very great amount of work in trying to make the division between those two as precise as possible, and find that the ratio is about 2 to 1; in other words, about 45 per cent in the quotas get their distribution from the colonial Jk of 1790, and about 21.6 per cent from the grandchildren actor. Actually, whatever element of uncertainty there is in dividing between the two has very little effect. Accurate tests show that if there has been an error of 1,000,000 population in dividing between the colonial and the grandchildren factor (in the computation by the Bureau of the Census) which is rather difficult to suppose, the effect on the quotas would amount to less than 1,000 in the case of Great Britain, less than 400 in the quotas in the cases of Germany and the Irish Free State, and less than 50 in each of the rest. So that the division between those two, although it has been done with great care, really has not as much effect upon the quotas as would be supposed. , Senator Regn. Now, Mr. Boggs, turning to the 1890 method—that is, the basis of determining the quotas according to the foreign born, shown by the census of 1890—is that certain, definite, and accurate? Mr. Bogos. I take it that the figures as reported are accurate. We have no reason to question them. Senator Reep. The figures in the census itself? : Mr. Boggs. The ficures in the census itself: yes, sir.No full text available for this image

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