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After the annexiation of Texas, Mexico severed all relations with America. This led to the Mexican American War.
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James K Polk was the one to ask Congress for permission to attack Mexico. This was the beginning of the war.
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This was the Treaty that ended the Mexican American War. It gave America most of the Southwesten region that we have today.
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The Gadsen Purchase was territory that the United States purchased from Mexico. They bought it for 3 million dollars.
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A train brought a lorge ammount of undocumented immigrants to Arizona in 1882
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The Mexican Revolution drove throusands of Mexicans into the United States. They all came illegally.
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In March of 1915, the first mounted watchmen were put on the border to watch for illegal immigrants trying to cross the southwest borders.
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Congress established Border Patrol to look out for the borders in between inspection stations.
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The United States brought in hundreds of Mexican workers to work in fieds after the great depression.
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The Bracero Program ended in 1964 but undocumented workers continued to pour in from Mexico
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This law lefted restrictions on the number of certain races that were allowed in America. Theis opened the borders for more people to come into America.
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Joe Arpaio is elected sherrif of Maricopia county. He holds very strong views against undocumented immigrants. He has been sherrif ever since.
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The NAFTA partnered with the collaspe of the Mexican economy and over the next 15 years brought 13 million undocumented immigrants.
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Arizona began recruiting civilians to help patrol the border
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SB1070 is an Arizona Senate Bill that says officers can ask for documentation if a person is pulled over.