East Boston Immigration Station
The East Boston Immigration Station was an immigration station in East Boston that was built from 1919 to 1920 and operational from 1920 to 1954. In 1959, it was declared surplus and sold to the highest bidder.[1] As of 2010, it is owned by Massport and leased as a shipyard.[1] It is located directly to the east of the former Bethlehem Atlantic Works.
At the start of World War II, it was used as a detention center for Japanese, German and Italian immigrants deemed potentially dangerous by the government (many of whom had resided in the United States for decades and despite a lack of evidence proving their supposed risk). Their internment at East Boston was temporary; all were later transferred to more permanent facilities.[2][3]
See also
- Demographics of Boston
References
- ^ a b "East Boston Immigration Station Study Report" (PDF). City of Boston. Retrieved 24 December 2013.
- ^ "East Boston" Densho Encyclopedia
- ^ J. Burton, M. Farrell, F. Lord, R. Lord. Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites, "Department of Justice and U.S. Army Facilities: Temporary Detention Sites" Archived 2014-11-06 at the Wayback Machine (National Park Service)
External links
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- Information on the now-demolished building
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United States and
international laws
organizations
- Department of Homeland Security
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- U.S. Border Patrol (BORTAC)
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
- Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
- Executive Office for Immigration Review
- Board of Immigration Appeals
- Office of Refugee Resettlement
- US v. Wong Kim Ark (1898)
- Ozawa v. US (1922)
- US v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923)
- US v. Brignoni-Ponce (1975)
- Zadvydas v. Davis (2001)
- Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting (2011)
- Barton v. Barr (2020)
- DHS v. Regents of the Univ. of Cal. / Wolf v. Vidal (2020)
- Niz-Chavez v. Garland (2021)
- Sanchez v. Mayorkas (2021)
and events
- 2006 protests
- Brooks County, Texas
- Central American migrant caravans
- Economic impact
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- Eugenics in the United States
- Guest worker program
- Human trafficking
- Human smuggling
- Immigration reduction
- Immigration reform
- List of people deported from the United States
- Mexico-United States border crisis
- Mexico–United States border wall
- Labor shortage
- March for America
- Illegal immigrant population
- Reverse immigration
- Unaccompanied minors from Central America
- DREAM Act (2001–2010)
- H.R. 4437 (2005)
- McCain–Kennedy (2005)
- Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act 2006
- STRIVE Act (2007)
- Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act 2007
- Uniting American Families Act (2000–2013)
- Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013
- SAFE Act (2015)
- RAISE Act (2017)
- US Citizenship Act of 2021
and points of entry
organizations
- Arizona Border Recon
- California Coalition for Immigration Reform
- CASA of Maryland
- Center for Immigration Studies
- Center for Migration Studies of New York
- Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles
- Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
- Community Change
- Federation for American Immigration Reform
- Improve The Dream
- Mexica Movement
- Mexicans Without Borders
- Migration Policy Institute
- Minuteman Civil Defense Corps
- Minuteman Project
- National Immigration Forum
- National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC)
- Negative Population Growth
- No More Deaths
- NumbersUSA
- Save Our State
- Utah Compact
- Borderland (TV series)
- Missing in Brooks County
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