Finding US and other documents
U.S. State Department documents on Mexico
Mexican immigration and relocation to the United States
A compilation of data on the characteristics and behavior of documented and undocumented Mexican migrants to the United States.
Pew Research Center statistics
Outstanding statistical source on illegal and legal immigration from Mexico.
Border detention of children
Useful overview of the history of border detention
TRAC Immigration
"comprehensive, independent and nonpartisan information about U.S. federal
immigration enforcement."
- ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new window Covers abstracts and indexing for hearings, reports, documents and committee prints. Date coverage: 1970-
- Digital National Security Archive This link opens in a new window Comprehensive collections of primary documents released through the Freedom of Information Act. Includes many aspects of U.S. foreign policy and military policy from 1945 to the present. Overlaps with U.S. Declassified Documents but has more recent coverage.
- Congressional Record daily (through HeinOnline) 1980+The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session.
- Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)The official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. Searchable online from Truman (1945) to Reagan (1988); available in print 1861+
Mugar JX 233 E52 - U.S. Department of State Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) website.This website provides information on how to obtain access to the Department’s records, as well as a search tool containing 207,484 searchable documents reviewed and released to the public.
- CREST (Central Intelligence Agency)The CREST system is the publicly accessible repository of the subset of CIA records reviewed under the 25-year program in electronic format (manually reviewed and released records are accessioned directly into the National Archives in their original format). Over 11 million pages have been released in electronic format and reside on the CREST database, from which researchers have printed about 1.1 million pages As of January 2017, the CIA published the records of the CREST collection online.
- National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)An independent agency of the United States government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records and with increasing public access to those documents. Most records at NARA are in the public domain, but require an on-site visit for viewing. Items can be identified through the catalog
Mugar JX 233 E52International document sources
- Latin American Government Documents ArchiveA list, ordered by country, of links to the top level archived version of all ministry and presidency Web sites captured as part of the LAGDA project.
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