evs250 facts/dates

1990 - how many countries had walls or fences vs 2016

1990 - 15
2016 - 70

year border patrol was established

1924

four deserts is swna region

sonoran
mojave
great basin
chihuhuan

Arms trafficking – how guns get from the US to Mexico, who traffics them,
which US counties they trace back to (top five

small batch legally
white US citizens
counties: hartford, maricopa, harris, hampden, pima

fent trafficking into the US - who traffics it, how they traffic is, how they enter the US

white people
legally through entry ports on person
in a passenger vehicle

list border states on both sides

california - baja
arizona - sonora
NM - chihuahua
texas - chiahuahua, coahuila, nuevo leoin, tamaulipas

War on Drugs – when and why it was launched vs. what it really did

launched 1971 by nixon for public health concerns, crime control, and national security, response to soldiers that came back from vietnam 

really gave nixon the ability to target groups he did not like

percentage of indigenous population who died within the first few decades of colonization

90-99%

sonoran desert agricultural history

2100 BC evidence found of large scale irrigation and continuous cultivation

when did mexico mexico outlaw weed cultivation and why

mexico banned it in 1920 due to public health fears and fears of being linked to indigenous people and their activities

year US captured mexico city in mexican american war

1847

Opium - why was it outlawed in mexico and who was it associated with

social problem, chinese, international pressure

bracero program

1942-1964 4.6 million contracts signed

year ice was created

2003

year DHS was created

2002