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Presidential proclamation

Note: There is no evidence of a Presidential Proclamation given on this date. See http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/proclamations.php —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.167.255.151 (talk) 15:38, 3 October 2008

Very few proclamations and executive orders prior to 1936 have been properly indexed much less made available on-line. I've added two reliable sources attesting to the existence of the proclamation. —Ashanda (talk) 23:46, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I sense the 100-year old proclamation is still in effect, since the strip of land of the US-Mexican border (except for the Rio Grande of Texas) is under supervision of the INS and US Border Patrol; and has several dispatched groups of the US Army National Guard there to curb illegal drug trade and drug cartel violence from pouring into the American side, as it has erupted throughout Mexico in recent years.

In 1936, Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order to create the first known wire-fence dividing the U.S.-Mexican border, and the wire-fencing expanded throughout most of the boundary during WWII and again in the 1950's when the INS performed an aggressive massive deportation program of illegal/undocumented Mexican immigrants known as Operation Wetback in 1954, but nowadays known as "La Gran Repatracion" or Great Repatriation.

The term is oddly used for a Mexican majority section of Indio, Cal., perhaps to compare a segregated residential tract of land for Mexicans with a federal government buffer zone on the US-Mexican border. It has to been from the time Theo. Roosevelt was president (1900's) and his notably strong "imperialistic" approach in Latin American diplomatic relations, with somewhat racist overtones, including fears of more Mexicans settling down in large numbers across the Western United States (in which it did happen). Also to call it a "reservation" is similar to an Indian reservation set up for Native Americans in the United States.+ 71.102.2.206 (talk) 16:52, 17 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Who owns the land?

The opening paragraph says the land is owned by the federal government, but then it says only some of it. Which is it? 2600:4040:44F9:3B00:29C5:5E04:8CC7:269A (talk) 23:53, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As the article says, the Roosevelt Reservation is owned by the federal government. The article then describes more about the entire border to put the federal lands in perspective. As the article says, the federal government doesn't own all the land along the entire boundary. 〜 Adflatuss • talk 01:18, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The article starts by saying

“The Roosevelt Reservation is the 60-foot (18 m)-wide strip of land owned by the United States Federal Government along the United States side of the United States–Mexico Border in three of the four border states. Federal and tribal lands make up 632 miles (1,017 km), or approximately 33 percent, of the nearly 2,000 miles (3,200 km) total.”

So are you saying “the nearly 2,000 miles total” refers to something other than the Roosevelt Reservation? 2600:4040:44F9:3B00:F892:70E9:2D6C:D719 (talk) 01:11, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that refers to the whole US-Mexico land border. The article has been clarified. -- Beland (talk) 01:43, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]