Border protection bill [US House] News
Border protection bill [US House]

Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005, passed by the US House of Representatives, December 16, 2005 [legislation tightening illegal immigration controls, including plans to build a security fence across 621 miles of the Mexican border and authorizing the US Department of Homeland Security to study the possibility of placing barriers across the famously "undefended" US border with Canada]. Read the full text of the legislation [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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US judge upheld wartime detention of Japanese-Americans

On September 1, 1942, a federal judge in Sacramento, California, US, upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans and Japanese nationals during World War II. Learn more about Japanese-American internment.

ANZUS Treaty signed

On September 1, 1951, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States signed ANZUS, a mutual defense accord similar to NATO in Europe. The alliance between the US and New Zealand, however, has been suspended since 1985, after the institution of New Zealand's nuclear-free zone prohibited US nuclear warships from entering New Zealand's ports.