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U.S. Customs Service
The fifth act of Congress establishe the U.S. Customs Service and it's ports. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
Acts permit the President to deport any foreigner deemed to be dangerous. -
Declare War
Congress declares war on Mexico. -
Mexican-American War Settled
The Mexican-American War was settled with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which caused Mexico to lose half of it's territory. Current residents of the states Mexico lost such as Arizona, Texas and New Mexico, had one year to decide whether they wanted to remain a Mexican Citizen or if they wanted to switch to being a U.S. citien. Around 80,000 Mexicans decided to become U.S. citizens as to the 2,000 that kept their residency and moved south. -
Anarchist Exclusion Act
Act signed into Lawby Theodore Roosevelt, it added four inadmissable classes for immigrants. Those classes included anarchists, people with epilepsy, beggars, and importers of prostitutes. -
Mexican Revolution
The revilution pushes the first Mexican political refugees into the U.S. -
Immigration Act of 1917
This refined who was allowed into the U.S. even more than it already was by excluding "idiots, imbeciles, epileptics, alcoholics, poor, criminals, beggars, the insane, those with tuberculosis, and those who have any form of dangerous contagious disease, aliens who have a physical disability that will restrict them from earning a living in the U.S., polygamists, those who were against the organized government or those who advocated the unlawful assult of killing of a police officer. -
Oriental Exclusion Act
Act prohibits most immigration from Asia, including foreign-born wives and children of U.S. citizens of Chinese ancestry, closing the "paper sons" loophole, and actual family immigration. The act placed no limit on immigration within the hemisphere, which caused the immigration from Mexico to increase while employers looked south for cheaper labor. -
Labor Appropriation Act of 1924
Officially established the U.S. Border Patrol whose purpose was to ensure security between the inspection stations. -
Dowell testifies to the U.S. Committee on Immigration
Edward H. Dowell spoke about the burden of the unrestricted flow of Mexicans on the state’s taxpayers, prisons, hospitals and American workers’ wages. He estimated that while 67,000 Mexicans entered the U.S. legally the prior year, many times that number entered illegally -
Deportation During Economic Hardship
During the Great Depression, many Mexicans, both those with documents and those without, were sent back to Mexico due to blame of immigrants. During the 1930's, the number of deportees were almost half a million. Even those whose families lived in the U.S. for generations were rounded up and deported or returned to Mexico out of fear. -
Alien Registration Act
Recquires all immigrants in the U.S. over the age of 13 to be registered and fingerprinted. -
War Brides Act
Allows foreign-born wives, natural chuldren, and adopted children, assuming all are admissable, of members of The United Armed Forces to enter the U.S. -
Operation Wetback
Forces the return of undocumented Mexican workers to Mexico due to the lowered need for Mexican labor after WWII. -
Boundary Treaty of 1970
Treaty was created to try and resolve the pending boundary issues as well as keeping the Rio Grande and Colorado River international territory.
