Showing posts with label Border Patrol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Border Patrol. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Wednesday, May 28, 1924. Border Patrol and Foreign Service.

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Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, May 24, 1924. Foreign services.

Saturday, May 24, 1924. Foreign services.

President Coolidge signed the Foreign Service Act of 1924, creating the Foreign Serve and the Immigration Act of 1924, the National Origins Act.


The act reflected immigration by national origins, banned all immigration from Asia and set a total immigration quota of 165,000 for countries outside the Western Hemisphere.  It also authorized the creation of The Border Patrol.

And on this day, those agencies came into being.

Japan issued a formal protest over the Immigration Act of 1924.

President Coolidge issued a proclamation:


Max Wallraf was elected as the President of the Reichstag,

New York National Guardsman, Pvt. George Herman Ruth was photographed saluting Gen. Pershing.



Coolidge was photographed with cadet officers.


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Friday, May 24, 2024

Saturday, May 24, 1924. Foreign services.

President Coolidge signed the Foreign Service Act of 1924, creating the Foreign Serve and the Immigration Act of 1924, the National Origins Act.


The act reflected immigration by national origins, banned all immigration from Asia and set a total immigration quota of 165,000 for countries outside the Western Hemisphere.  It also authorized the creation of The Border Patrol.

President Coolidge held a press conference.

Press Conference, May 24, 1924

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