Border fence
The congressional decision in 2006 to build hundreds of miles of additional fencing along portions of the 1,951- mile U.S.-Mexico border touched off a diplomatic dispute with Mexico, angered Latino communities in the United States...
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Since its 1924 creation, the U.S. Border Patrol has served as the primary federal law-enforcement agency responsible for the prevention and detection of illegal immigrants...
Read the full storyEl Paso incident
The complicity of agents of the U.S. government to contravene an agreement with Mexico by allowing Mexican farmworkers to enter the United States was another black mark in the administration of the bracero programs that damaged U.S.- Mexican relations.
Read the full storyHistory of immigration after 1891
The period from the end of the nineteenth century to the early twentyfirst saw the federal government taking control over immigration policy.
Department of Homeland Security
Formed in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, this well-funded cabinet department of the federal government has exemplified a governmental response to improve the coordination and effectiveness of efforts to combat the ongoing war against terrorism.
Immigration Act of 1891
Beginning in 1882, responsibility for administering U.S. immigration law, excluding the Chinese exclusion law, rested with the individual states.
Read the full storyImmigration law
The gatekeeper of the borders of the United States, federal immigration law determines who may enter the country, how long they may stay, their status, their rights and duties while in the United States, and how they may become resident aliens or American citizens.
Read the full storyInfectious diseases
During North America’s colonial era, immigrants from Europe and Africa imported many contagious diseases that wreaked havoc on not only Native American populations but also nonimmunized colonists.
Read the full storyInfectious diseases: Columbian Exchange
The early history of European and African settlement in the Western Hemisphere provides a depressingly long list of epidemics and pandemics.
Read the full storyInfectious diseases: Epidemics During the Age of Sail
Traditional Western medicine had long associated disease with filth, a lack of basic hygiene, and, by the later eighteenth century, poverty.
Read the full storyInfectious diseases: Public Health and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment
The fact that a significant percentage of immigrants were Roman Catholic and, to a growing extent, Jewish, as well as poor and suffering from diseases, fed the fears and prejudices of nativist and other anti-immigrant groups.
Infectious diseases: Modern Health Threats
Twentieth century science and technology complicated ideas about the relationship between immigrants and infectious diseases.
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