ABSTRACT
The restrictions on immigration introduced by the United States after the war are significant. These restrictions have become progressively more and more severe. The regulations are operative until 30th June 1927, but after that date it is intended to adopt new principles by which the quota of immigrants to the United States will be further diminished. The immigration figure will in fact become so small that, at least so far as Sweden is concerned, it will be equivalent to complete exclusion. The prohibitive effect of the American immigration legislation has not, however, been equally strong in all countries. "The increase of open and secret emigration from Canada and Mexico into the United States," states the "Encyclopedia Britannica," "shows that unless continental migration is regulated, the intentions of legislation regarding overseas migrants will merely be paper regulations." During the fiscal year 1912-13 immigration into the United States amounted to 1,197,892 persons, and in the corresponding period of 1913-14 to 1,218,480 persons.
