border geography
This desert region is known for dangerous migrant crossings due to extreme heat and terrain.
What is the Sonoran Desert?
This amendment grants citizenship to most individuals born in the United States.
What is the 14th amendment?
This agency processes citizenship and immigration applications.
What is USCIS
This 1882 law restricted immigration from China and was the first major U.S. immigration restriction law.
What is The Chinese Exclusion Act?
This policy required some asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while awaiting court hearings.
What is the “Remain in Mexico” policy?
This river forms a large part of the border between the U.S. and Mexico
What is the Rio Grande?
The law that created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
What is the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)
This agency is primarily responsible for border security in the U.S.
What is U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
The year the U.S. implemented stricter border controls after 9/11
What is 2001?
This policy aims to return asylum sookers to Mexico while their cases are processed
What is Migrant Protection?
These two U.S. states border Mexico but do not touch Texas
This legal process allows individuals fleeing persecution to seek protection in another country.
What is asylum?
This court system handles deportation and asylum cases.
What is Immigration Court?
This event in 1980 brought approximately 125,000 Cuban migrants to Florida.
What is the Mariel Boatlift?
This term refers to increased security measures, personnel, and technology used to prevent unauthorized border crossings.
What is border enforcement?
This U.S. State has the longest stretch of border with mexico
What is Texas?
This 1986 law granted amnesty to certain undocumented immigrants
What is the immigration reform and control act (IRCA) of 1986?
This agency handles immigration enforcement inside the U.S.
What is ICE?
what is NAFTA
The name of the U.S. program that allows temporary work permits for certain immigrants
What is Temporary Protected Status or a work permit under DACA or other programs?
This major California border crossing is one of the busiest land ports of entry in the world.
What is San Ysidro Port of Entry?
This federal law requires employers to verify employees’ eligibility to work in the United States.
What is the Immigration Reform and Control Act employer verification requirement or E-Verify?
This federal department oversees CBP, ICE, and USCIS.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
This immigration station in New York processed millions of immigrants from 1892 to 1954.
What is Ellis Island?
This ongoing debate focuses on creating a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants already living in the U.S.
What is immigration reform?