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Crossing the Line: A History of Medical Inspection at the Border

June 24, 2014 Celeste Menchaca

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mso-tstyle-colband-size… — Mexicans quarantined at the Santa Fe Bridge Disinfection Plant, 1917 | USPHS, National Archives

In the early 1900s, medical inspection and photographic documentation ushered in a new set of surveillance procedures for state oversight at the U.S.-Mexico border.