America Had No Border Patrol Until 1924 — Who Guarded the Border?

Before 1924, the United States maintained thousands of miles of international land borders with zero physical walls, no checkpoints, and no Border Patrol. Discover the forgotten history of who actually guarded the American frontier for over 140 years. For the first century and a half of American history, the concept of a national border had nothing to do with stopping human migration. Land frontiers were open commercial corridors monitored primarily by Treasury Department customs collectors, mounted tax inspectors, and local militias looking strictly for untaxed goods. From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Mounted Chinese Watchmen to the military deployment during the Mexican Revolution, the 1917 Bath Riots, and the bootlegging chaos of Prohibition, this documentary uncovers the untold legal and geopolitical events that led to the creation of the modern U.S. Border Patrol in 1924. 🔔 Subscribe for more deep dives into forgotten American history and declassified frontier records #AmericanHistory #BorderPatrol #USHistory #Documentary #HistoricalDocumentary