And Border Protection) With Complete
Solution.
immigration act of 1921
(1921)
- put numerical limitations on the # of people who could come into the country
neutralization act of 1790
(1790)
- this act allowed all "free white persons" who had been in the country for two years to be naturalized
in any American court
labor appropriation act of 1924
(1924)
- established the U.S. Border Patrol under the Bureau of Immigration
- 450 patrol inspectors
page act of 1875 and chinese exclusion act
- restricted laborers and undesirables from entering the country
- chinese were the first group to be targeted for exclusion
mounted guards
agents at the Mexican/Canadian borders were referred to as ____________ _______________
border patrol academy
- opened in El Paso, TX in 1934
- called the El Paso District Training School
prohibition
____________________ increased the amount of illegal immigrants
detention camps
during WWII CBP was in charge of guarding enemy ______________ _________
operation wetback
(1954)
- over 1 million legal/illegal immigrants got deported back to Mexico
2002
CBP became part of Department of Homeland Security in ________
mission of cbp
- frontline agency for national security by preventing terrorist, terrorist weapons, narcotics and
agricultural threats from entering the U.S.
- secures trade and travel while enforcing hundreds of U.S. regulations, immigration and drug laws