Today in Brownsville, I signed three new laws to better protect Texans AND Americans from Biden’s open border policies.Illegal entry into Texas is now a crime subject to removal or imprisonment.
Texas will also fund new wall construction & increase human smuggling penalties.
https://www.history.com/news/illegal-border-crossing-usa-mexico-section-1325
A good history of the USA Southern border and the ILLEGAL crossings
over the years since IT’S founding.
In 1929, Section 1325 criminalized undocumented immigration for the first time. Its aim was to decrease Mexican immigration.
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In the early 20th century, it wasn’t a crime to enter the U.S. without authorization. Though authorities could still deport immigrants who hadn’t gone through an official entry point, they couldn’t be detained and prosecuted for a federal crime. But that all changed in 1929 when the U.S. passed a bill to restrict a group of immigrants it hadn’t really focused on before: people who crossed the U.S.-Mexican border.
During World War II, prosecutions under Section 1325 decreased as the U.S. sought more labor for the war effort. In 1942, the U.S. started the Bracero Program to bring over more than 300,000 Mexican guest workers for short-term agricultural projects. This helped fill a labor shortage while many Americans were fighting overseas.
The Bracero Program continued until 1964, but even after it ended, the U.S. didn’t make prosecuting immigrants under Section 1325 a priority....
It wasn’t until George W. Bush’s presidency that the U.S. began to prosecute people under Section 1325 more regularly.
Read more at the link above........