HC Deb 22 February 1905 vol 141 cc896-7
MR. HERBERT SAMUEL (Yorkshire, W.R., Cleveland)

I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will state what was the number of aliens in the United States sentenced for crime in each of the last five years for which the figures are available, together with the number of alien immigrants prohibited from landing in the United States, on the ground that they were criminals, in each of the same years.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE (Mr. GERALD BALKOUR,): Leeds, Central

I am unable to give the particulars asked for in the first part of the Question, but in 1903–4 the number of alien inmates of penal and reformatory institutions in the United States is stated to have been 9,825. The number of persons debarred from landing in the United States on the ground that they were convicts in each of the last five years were as follows:—1899–1900, 4; 1900–1901, 7; 1901–1902, 9; 1902–1903, 51; 1903–1904, 35.