What group was made to impose order on the Mexican political economy created during Echeverria’s term and headed by Portillo?
What is The Ministry of Planning and Budget or SPP (Secretaria de Planificacion y Presupuesto)
100
What act of 1996 provided funds for hiring one thousand Border Patrol agents a year?
What is The Illegal Immigration Reform Act of 1996.
100
This Strategy was used to prevent Mexicans from crossing the border illegally.
What is Operation Gate Keeper
100
This California Proposition prohibited undocumented migrants from using publicly provided social services, for example, public schools.
What is Prop 187
200
He secured Mexico’s entry into GATT (General Agreement in Tariff and Trade), which symbolized the neoliberal era of the country.
Who is de la Madrid
200
What does NAFTA stand for and what was its purpose?
What is North American Free Trade Agreement and its purpose was to establish free trade between Mexico, U.S., and Canada.
200
This act provided states with greater flexibility in setting eligibility rules for legal immigrants
What is The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA)
200
What did the Immigration and Naturalization Service offer?
What is Millions of dollars that improved expansion of the Border Patrol.
200
This Act of 1986 combatted undocumented migration in four ways, one of which was imposing employer sanctions
What is IRCA
300
This president sought to renew Mexico’s revolutionary credentials by being ambitious and raised tariffs, imposed new quotas, etc. However, this failed and he was forced to devalue peso which caused inflation to 27% per annum.
Who is Echeverria
300
Through which legalization programs under IRCA were undocumented immigrants able to change their status?
What are LAW (Legally Authorized Workers)
SAW (Special Agricultural Workers)
300
What act enforced U.S drug laws?
What is the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act
300
What strategies were used by Reagan as excuses for the economic problems in the U.S.?
What is Ideology and Scapegoating
300
Other than the undocumented migrants, what was the other “war” U.S. was fighting against?
What is war on drugs
400
It was during his reign as a president wherein Mexico found petroleum (oil deposits) in the Gulf of Campeche.
Who is Portillo
400
What program did Mexico enter which inaugurated the neoliberal era in Mexican society?
What is GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)
400
What agency disrupted routes of cocaine shifted the traffic to Mexico?
What is The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
400
How did aspiring politicians exploited illegal migration as a political issue?
What is Border Under Siege- using scenes of a video purposely done to simulate boundary was being "invaded" by "desperate" aliens
400
What does "Reaganomics" refer to?
What is The economic boom that Reagan led after Carter’s Presidency
500
He seeked help from the U.S. which then lead to Mexico joining NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)
Who is Salinas
500
Used under Echeverria’s term, what promoted the use of domestic production instead of depending on imports?
What is ISI (Import Substitution Industrialization)
500
This act sought to impose limits on the total number of immigrants who could be admitted every single year and focused strongly on border control.
What is The 1990 Immigration Act
500
What are Linewatch-hours?
What is the number of person-hours spent by agents patrolling the Mexico-U.S. border.
500
How were military groups able to cooperate with civilian law enforcement agencies to launch a new "war on drugs"?
What is the 1986 National Security Decision Directive secretly signed by Ronald Reagan