federal law enforcement exam 2
(Customs and Border Protection) study
guide
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 -
