U.S. Immigration Policy
What year did soldiers start patrolling the boundary?
1916
When was the secession of Texas?
1836
The Rio Grande formed a diving line between Mexico and what state?
Texas
True or False - Former President Trump was the first president to have sent National Guard troops to the border.
False
Are there underground sensors?
Yes
Restrictions on the movement of Mexican citizens were not particularly enforced by the U.S government until the decade of the _____ _____ in the 1910s.
Mexican Revolution
When did the United Sates annex Texas?
1845
A team of surveyors, soldiers, and officials from both countries staked out the border from __ ____ to Tijuana.
El Paso (Texas)
Approximately ___ million Mexican immigrants resided in the United States in 2016.
11.6 million
About 700 miles
After what act did the United States first sought to keep Chinese immigrants from illegally crossing the border?
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
After a cavalry attack on April 25th of what year did the United States declare war on Mexico?
1846
Which president ordered the construction of a 14-mile barrier between San Diego and Tijuana?
President Bill Clinton
About what percent of the Mexican immigrants resided in the United States in 2016 were illegal?
About 50% were illegal
What states does the border touch?
California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas
What is the way (stated in the article) that immigrants from China would attempt to get across the border by using?
They would learn a few Spanish words and disguise themselves as Mexican
How much money did the U.S purchase more than a half a million square miles (1/3 of territory) of formerly Mexican land?
$15,000,000
The bill, known as the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005, was ____ by multiple civil rights groups.
denounced
Donald Trump had claimed that 1,000 miles of a new wall as high as 55 feet tall, running through remote mountainous terrain can be build for how much?
18 billion
How many miles does the Rio Grande run along the border?
1,254 miles
According to St. John, the U.S Bureau of Animal Industry erected the first fence along the frontier in 1909 to stop the trans-border movement of what animal? (group of the animal)
cattle
True or False - Mexico refused an American offer to purchase California and Arizona.
False. Mexico refused an American offer to purchase California and New Mexico.
Those who opposed H.R. 4437 felt that it took ___ ___ away from asylum seekers and other immigrants.
civil rights
An analysis of Trump's plan by experts (about a wall being build for 18 billion) say that it is estimated to cost around how much?
40 billion
What year did Mexico win its independence over Spain?
1821