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Preference and admission outside of the annual quota was granted to the parents, spouse
and children of American citizens. 59
Table 4 describes the number of foreign born residing within the U.S. as a
percentage of total population from the mid-Nineteenth to mid-Twentieth Centuries and
Table 5 lists the number of total immigrants during the a similar time frame. The latter
highlights the significant drop in aliens admitted during the critical years of the 1930s and
1940.
TABLE 4: Foreign Born in the United States, 1850-1940
Year Number (millions) Percentage
1850 2.2 9.7
1860 4.1 13.2
1870 5.6 14.0
1880 6.7 13.3
1890 9.2 14.7
1900 10.4 13.6
1910 13.6 14.7
1920 14.0 13.2
1930 14.3 11.6
1940 11.7 8.9
1950 10.4 6.9
Roger Daniels. Guarding the Golden Door, 5.
59 Roger Daniels, Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants Since 1882
(NY: Hill and Wang, 2004), 49-57.
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