Finding Aid for the Kelly Lytle Hernandez Collection of Border Patrol Research Papers, 1907-1990 112

Processed by CSRC.

Chicano Studies Research Center Library

2010

144 Haines Hall

Box 951544

Los Angeles, California 90095-1544

librarian@chicano.ucla.edu

URL: http://chicano.ucla.edu

Contributing Institution: Chicano Studies Research Center Library

Title: Kelly Lytle Hernandez Collection of Border Patrol Research Papers

Creator: Hernandez, Kelly Lytle

Identifier/Call Number: 112

Physical Description: 8 linear feet

Date (inclusive): 1907-1990

Abstract: This collection of papers represents the research material Kelly Lytle Hernandez used for her book: MIGRA! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press, 2010). The book is a history and analysis of the U.S. Border Patrol and how it polices unsanctioned immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border.

Physical Location: COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Library and Archive for paging information.

Language of Material: English .

Access

Open for research.

Acquisition Information

Collection donated to the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. Deed on file at the CSRC Archive office.

Arrangement

The collection is arrranged in tthe following series:

Series 1. Reports, statistics, and internal documents
Series 2. Border Patrol complaints
Series 3. Correspondence and memos
Series 4. Agricultural material
Series 5. Smuggling
Series 6. Northern border
Series 7. Operation Wetback
Series 8. Surveys

Biography

Kelly Lytle Hernandez is associate professor in the UCLA Department of History and Associate Co-Director of the National Center for History in the Schools. Her research interests are in twentieth-century U.S. history with a concentration upon race, migration, and police and prison systems in the American West and U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Her book, MIGRA! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press, 2010) is the first book to tell the story of how and why the U.S. Border Patrol concentrates its resources upon policing unsanctioned immigration across the U.S>-Mexico border despite the many possible targets and strategies of U.S. migration control. Her current research focuses upon exploring the social world of incarceration in Los Angeles between 1876 and 1965.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Kelly Lytle Hernandez Collection of Border Patrol Research Papers, 112, Chicano Studies Research Center, University of California, Los Angeles.

Processing Information

Processed by the CSRC in 2010. Finding aid edited by Jason Lowder under the direction of Doug Johnson in 2021. The editing was done during the COVID-19 pandemic so there was no physical access to the materials.

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of research materials gathered for Kelly Lytle Hernandez's book MIGRA! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol. It consists mostly of Border Patrol interior documents including reports, statistics, correspondence, and surveys. The material is almost entirely photocopies.

Publication Rights

These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of materials, including but not limited to infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source. The original authors may retain copyright to the materials.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Border patrols

Immigration enforcement

Imprisonment

Mexico

Poverty

Police brutality

U.S. Border Patrol

Series 1. Reports, statistics, and internal documents

Box 1, Folder 1

Index of research papers (by subject) undated

Box 1, Folder 2

Border Patrol file index undated

Box 1, Folder 4

Allocation of Agents 1924-1956

Box 1, Folder 8

Annual Report 1934

Box 1, Folder 9

Annual Report 1945

Box 1, Folder 10

Apprehensions 1928-1956

Box 1, Folder 11

Apprehensions-women and children 1956

Box 1, Folder 12

Apprehensions and violence 1948-1956

Box 1, Folder 13

Anti-Subversive files 1977

Box 1, Folder 14

Apprehensions post-1954 1957-1975

Box 1, Folder 16

Articles 1933-1956

Box 1, Folder 18

Statistics and numbers of authorized force 1930-1950

Box 1, Folder 19

Border Patrol's use of auto-gyros 1935-1941

Box 1, Folder 20

Proposal for the "Auxillary Border Patrol" undated

Box 1, Folder 21

Berkshire Report 1918

Box 2, Folder 1

Boatlift 1954

Box 2, Folder 3

Border Patrol Bank 1935

Box 2, Folder 4

Border Patrol Bill 1919

Box 2, Folder 5

Border Patrol Budget 1920s

Box 2, Folder 6

Border Patrol Budget 1930s

Box 2, Folder 7

Border Patrol Budget 1940s

Box 2, Folder 9

Border Patrol Recreation and Welfare Association 1955

Box 2, Folder 11

Border Patrol Training School-General Information 1936-1956

Box 2, Folder 12

Border Patrol Training School Information 1943

Box 2, Folder 13

Border Patrol Training School - Language 1943-1948

Box 2, Folder 14

Border Conditions 1953

Box 2, Folder 15

Border Patrol Training School Lectures Immigration Manual 1927-1957

Box 2, Folder 16

Border Patrol Management Manual 1959

Box 2, Folder 17

Bracero Program 1943-1955

Box 2, Folder 19

Bus Lift Operations 1946-1954

Box 2, Folder 20

Border Patrol on Chinese Immigration 1932-1955

Box 2, Folder 21

Chinese Immigration at Nogales, Arizona Border Patrol Interviewing Illegal Chinese Immigrants 1932

Box 2, Folder 22

Circulars to Guide Border Patrol 1924-1955

Box 2, Folder 23

Criminal Immoral Narcotics Program Communicating with Border Patrol 1956

Box 2, Folder 24

Criminal Charges undated

Box 2, Folder 25

Crossing Strategies undated

Box 2, Folder 26

Commendations 1928-1955

Box 2, Folder 27

Community Relations 1930s-1940s

Box 4, Folder 5

Cooperation with Mexican Law Enforcement 1930s-1950s

Box 4, Folder 6

Cooperation with Mexican Officials 1960s

Box 4, Folder 7

Cooperation/Local Law Enforcement 1930s-1950s

Box 4, Folder 8

Court Case and Judges 1952

Box 4, Folder 9

Cubans (illegal entry) 1964

Box 4, Folder 10

Details 1940s-1950s

Box 4, Folder 11

Detention Centers undated

Box 4, Folder 12

Donna, Texas Incident 1928

Box 4, Folder 13

Border Patrol Dismissals and Warnings 1928-1954

Box 4, Folder 14

District Locations 1930s-1940s

Box 4, Folder 15

District Directors Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1947

Box 4, Folder 16

El Paso Crisis 1942

Box 4, Folder 17

Escapes from the Border Patrol 1950s

Box 5, Folder 1

Escapes from the Border Patrol 1940s-1950s

Box 5, Folder 2

Exams undated

Box 5, Folder 9

Border Fence File 1950s

Box 5, Folder 10

Force File 1940s

Box 5, Folder 11

Force File 1950s

Box 5, Folder 12

History of Fort Lincoln Internment Camp 1941-1945

Box 5, Folder 13

Good Neighbor Commission of Texas 1948-1951

Box 6, Folder 1

Mistreatment and Undue Detention Case 1956

Box 6, Folder 2

Guidelines for Outside Employment 1942

Box 6, Folder 3

Head Shaving of Illegal Aliens and Mistreatment Allegations 1957

Box 6, Folder 4

Hiring Procedures and Recruiting Information 1924-1954

Box 6, Folder 5

Histories of the Border Patrol 1936-1998

Box 6, Folder 6

Histories of the Border Patrol 1949-1974

Box 6, Folder 7

Histories of the Border Patrol 1974-2000

Box 6, Folder 8

Honor Roll, Border Patrolmen Killed While on Duty 1920s-1950s

Box 6, Folder 9

Immigration Inspection 1920s

Box 6, Folder 10

Immigration Law 1950s-1990s

Box 6, Folder 11

I & N Reporter, INS newsletter 1954-1958

Box 6, Folder 12

Indians, American 1940s

Box 6, Folder 13

Index undated

Box 6, Folder 14

Informants 1930s-1950s

Box 6, Folder 15

Inspection Memos 1960s

Box 6, Folder 16

Illegal Immigrants and Ways of Passage 1950s

Box 7, Folder 1

Functions, Responsibilities and Organization 1955

Box 7, Folder 2

INS Conference 1929

Box 7, Folder 3

Investigative Search of Illegal Aliens 1960s

Box 7, Folder 4

Japanese Aliens 1954

Box 7, Folder 5

Border Patrol Job Description 1932

Box 7, Folder 6

Labor 1932

Box 7, Folder 7

Labor Complaints undated

Box 7, Folder 8

Labor Unions 1920s-1950s

Box 7, Folder 9

Lifts 1960s

Box 7, Folder 10

Labor Unrest 1949

Box 7, Folder 13

Patrol Inspectors Lists 1924-1955

Box 7, Folder 15

Mexican Border Situation Memos 1940s-1950s

Box 7, Folder 16

Mexican Border Subdistrict Report 1926

Box 7, Folder 17

Mexican Border Situation 1950s

Box 8, Folder 1

Mexican Border Subdistrict Reports 1925

Box 8, Folder 2

Mexican Border Subdistrict Reports 1924

Box 8, Folder 3

Mexican Border Violence 1918

Box 8, Folder 4

Mexican Embassy 1930

Box 8, Folder 5

Mexican Fiscals 1918

Box 8, Folder 6

Mexican Outside of Border States 1937-1949

Box 8, Folder 7

Military Patrol of Border 1917-1918

Box 8, Folder 8

Mississippi Delta 1948-1955

Box 8, Folder 9

Mississippi Files 1962

Box 8, Folder 10

Miscellaneous Budget Info 1927-1968

Box 8, Folder 11

Miscellaneous 1918-1954

Box 8, Folder 12

Monthly Reports 1949-1950

Box 8, Folder 13

Mounted Guard 1918

Box 8, Folder 14

Morale 1942

Box 8, Folder 15

Movement of Aliens 1940s

Box 8, Folder 16

Movement of Aliens 1946-1953

Box 8, Folder 25

Observation Towers 1930-1954

Box 8, Folder 26

Operations 1950s

Box 8, Folder 27

Operation Cloudburst 1953

Box 8, Folder 28

Operations 1933-1955

Box 9, Folder 9

Organizational Charts 1920-1959

Box 9, Folder 10

Organization undated

Box 9, Folder 11

OTMs 1918-1950

Box 9, Folder 12

Oxford Mississippi 1962

Box 9, Folder 13

Pamphlet 1952

Box 9, Folder 14

Pardo Case of Killing an Illegal Immigrant 1931

Box 9, Folder 15

Parole 1947

Box 9, Folder 16

Patrol Inspector Applicants 1926-1927

Box 9, Folder 17

Personnel Internment Camps 1942

Box 9, Folder 18

Personnel 1941

Box 9, Folder 19

Pistol Competitions 1936-1955

Box 9, Folder 20

Photos 1936

Box 9, Folder 21

Plan to Bolster the Border 1964

Box 9, Folder 22

Poems and Stories 1920-1949

Box 9, Folder 23

Twenty Five Years a Border Patrolman by Murphy J.F. Steen 1958

Box 9, Folder 24

Policy 1920-1959

Box 9, Folder 25

Policy 1957-1965

Box 9, Folder 26

Political Round Tables 1949

Box 9, Folder 27

Ports of Entry 1907

Box 10, Folder 3

Post Bracero 1965

Box 10, Folders 4-5

Principle Activities undated

Box 10, Folder 6

Presidio 1945

Box 10, Folder 7

Pressure Point 1963

Box 10, Folder 8

Procurement and Special Types of Patrol Vehicles 1947

Box 10, Folder 9

Profiling 1920-1961

Box 10, Folder 10

Prohibition 1925-1927

Box 10, Folder 11

Promotions 1930-1959

Box 10, Folder 12

Border Patrol Publicity 1941-1956

Box 10, Folder 13

Border Patrol Publicity 1950s

Box 10, Folder 17

Reclassification 1942

Box 10, Folder 19

Recruitment 1944-1957

Box 10, Folder 20

Reorganization 1933-1934

Box 10, Folder 21

Request for Release from the Border Patrol Duty / Request for Return of Patrol Inspectors from Temporary Detail 1954

Box 11, Folder 1

Reports Pre-Border Patrol 1924

Box 11, Folder 2

Reports on General Conditions of the Border Patrol 1944

Box 11, Folder 3

Resignations 1945

Box 11, Folder 4

Resistance-Mexican 1945-1953

Box 11, Folder 5

Restricted Mexicans 1930s

Box 11, Folder 6

Road Blocks 1938-1948

Box 11, Folder 7

Schoefield Interview 1940

Box 11, Folder 8

Sector Activity Reports 1950s

Box 11, Folder 9

Sector Activity Reports 1960s-1970s

Box 11, Folder 10

Semi-Annual Inspection 1926

Box 11, Folder 11

Semi-Annual Inspection 1927

Box 11, Folder 12

Semi-Annual Inspections 1928

Box 11, Folder 13

Semi-Annual Inspections 1954

Box 11, Folder 14

Semi-Annual Report - Brownsville 1935

Box 11, Folder 15

Semi-Annual Reports 1928-1937

Box 11, folder 16

Separations 1943-1954

Box 11, Folder 17

Shootings 1950s

Box 11, Folder 18

Shootings 1940s

Box 11, Folder 19

Shootings 1930s

Box 11, Folder 20

Shootings 1920

Box 11, Folder 21

Shootings 1910

Box 11, Folder 22

Sign-Cutting 1939-1948

Box 12, Folder 1

"Silent Invaders" 1931

Box 12, Folder 2

Skips- Prevention of 1954

Box 13, Folder 3

Special Task Force 1955

Box 13, Folder 4

State Department 1949-1952

Box 13, Folder 5

Strategic Planning 1945-1949

Box 13, Folder 11

Summary of Border Patrol Conditions 1949

Box 13, Folder 12

Southeast Survey 1924-1926

Box 13, Folder 14

Transfers 1940s-1950s

Box 13, Folder 15

Transfers 1960s

Box 13, Folder 16

Training 1930s

Box 13, Folder 17

Traffic Stops 1930s

Box 13, Folder 18

Tule Lake 1945

Box 13, Folder 19

Unofficial Supplement to the Border Patrol Handbook 1967

Box 13, Folder 20

Vacancies 1940-1946

Box 13, Folder 21

Warrants 1934-1950

Box 13, Folder 22

Warrants undated

Box 13, Folder 23

Wives-Border Patrol 1950s

Box 13, Folder 24

Women and Children 1957-1964

Box 13, Folder 25

Women and Children undated

Box 13, Folder 26

WWI 1918

Box 13, Folder 27

WWII Hiring 1941

Box 13, Folder 28

Personnel Crisis 1940s

Box 13, Folder 29

WWII 1940s

Box 13, Folder 30

Zapata, Texas 1950s

Series 2. Border Patrol complaints

Box 1, Folder 3

Abuse complaints 1948-1956

Box 3, Folder 1

Complaints Against 1930s

Box 3, Folder 2

Complaints Against 1940s

Box 3, Folder 3

Complaints Against Border Patrol 1950s-1960s

Box 3, Folder 4

Complaints Against Border Patrol 1950s

Scope and Contents

(folder 2 of 2)

Box 3, Folder 5

Complaints Against Border Patrol 1965

Box 3, Folder 6

Complaints Against Border Patrol 1950s

Box 4, Folder 1

Border Patrol Complaint Regulations, El Paso, Texas 1932-1935

Box 4, Folders 2-3

Complaints on Operation Wetback 1950s

Box 4, Folder 4

Complaints Post Operation Wetback 1950's

Series 3. Correspondence and memos

Box 1, Folder 5

Mcbee, Griffith J. 1948

Scope and Contents

On the "wetback problem."

Box 1, Folder 6

American G.I. Forum/LULAC 1950-1956

Box 1, Folder 7

American Legion 1950

Box 1, Folder 15

Arms and Ammunition Policies, Requisitions 1933-1946

Box 1, Folder 17

Brownell, Herbert G. Jr. to Agapito Domingues Secretaria de Gobernancion, Mexico, D.F. 1954

Box 2, Folder 2

Border Control 1917-1934

Box 2, Folder 8

Border Patrol Employment of Illegals 1949

Box 2, Folder 10

Regarding Border Patrol Training Schools and Programs 1940-1953

Box 2, Folder 18

Regarding J.C. Brodie's Complaints Over Mexicans in the Southwest 1930-1936

Box 10, Folder 18

Reeves, Edwin to Attorney General Brownell 1953

Box 13, Folder 13

Swing,Joseph 1954-1990

Series 4. Agricultural Material

Box 5, Folder 3

Farmers Association, Hidalgo County's Farmers League 1950s

Box 5, Folder 4

Farmers - Bracero Contracts Violations 1950s

Box 5, Folder 5

Farmers' Resistance 1940s-1950s

Box 5, Folders 6-7

Farmers' Resistance undated

Box 5, Folder 8

Farmers Complaining About Cotton Picker Shortages 1937

Box 7, Folder 11

Lists/Farmers 1954

Series 5. Smuggling

Box 7, Folder 12

List of Smugglers/Mugshots 1933

Box 7, Folder 14

Smuggling Prevention Conference, Mexican Border Conference 1933-1936

Box 8, Folder 17

New York Smuggling 1949-1951

Box 12, Folder 3

California 1934-1972

Box 12, Folder 4

California 1950-1951

Box 12, Folder 5

California 1940s-1950s

Box 12, Folder 6

California 1940s-1950s

Box 12, Folder 7

Texas 1930s-1950s

Box 12, Folder 8

Texas 1944-1954

Box 12, Folder 9

Analysis undated

Box 12, Folder 10

Canadian Border 1920s-1950s

Box 12, Folder 11

Chinese 1923-1929

Box 12, Folder 12

Detroit 1946

Box 12, Folder 13

Gulf Coast 1924-1953

Box 12, Folder 14

Post Wetback 1955

Box 13, Folder 1

Mexico 1935

Box 13, Folder 2

Texas 1940s-1950s

Series 6. Northern Border

Box 8, Folder 18

Northern Border 1924

Box 8, Folder 19

Northern Border Survey 1926

Box 8, Folder 20

Northern Border Survey 1925

Box 8, Folder 21

Northern Border Review 1926

Box 8, Folder 22

Northern Border Review 1924

Box 8, Folder 23

Northern Border Reports 1926

Box 8, Folder 24

Northern Border Survey 1927

Series 7. Operation Wetback

Box 9, Folder 1

Apprehensions 1954-1957

Box 9, Folder 2

Apprehension 1940s-1950s

Box 9, Folder 3

Canadian Border 1954

Box 9, Folder 4

Chicago 1954

Box 9, Folder 5

Deltablack 1954

Box 9, Folder 6

Operations 1954

Box 9, Folder 7

Statistics 1954

Box 9, Folder 8

Preperation 1948-1954

Box 10, Folder 2

Post Wetback Propaganda 1954-1957

Box 10, Folder 14

Publicity 1954

Box 10, Folder 15

Publicity Post-Wetback 1942

Box 10, Folder 16

Public Opinion Survey Post-Wetback 1954-1956

Series 8. Surveys

Box 10, Folder 1

Post Surveys 1925

Box 13, Folder 6

Mexican Border 1949

Box 13, Folder 7

San Antonio 1953

Box 13, Folder 8

El Paso 1949

Box 13, Folder 9

Alpine Sector 1947

Box 13, Folder 10

El Centro 1935