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In the American Civil War (1861–65), the border states or the Border South were four, later five, slave states in the Upper South that primarily supported the Union. They were Delaware , Maryland , Kentucky , and Missouri , and after 1863, the new state of West Virginia .
Twenty-one states have the distinction of being the birthplace of a president. One president's birth state is in dispute; North and South Carolina (British colonies at the time) both lay claim to Andrew Jackson, who was born in 1767 in the Waxhaw region along their common border. Jackson himself considered South Carolina his birth state.
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas, or the Border War, was a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859. It emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas .
President-elect Trump announced that Thomas Homan will serve as "border czar" in his administration. Homan served as acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during Trump's first presidency.
Mark A. Morgan (born 1965 or 1966) is an American law enforcement official who served as the Chief Operating Officer and acting Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection from July 5, 2019, to January 20, 2021.
The president on Wednesday signed directives to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico and crack down on U.S. cities that shield illegal immigrants.
Kansas and Missouri put a stop to this kind of back-and-forth business poaching more than five years ago when officials in both states agreed to a ceasefire in the so-called economic border war ...
Gilmore, Donald L. Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas Border (2005) Hess, Earl J. "The 12th Missouri Infantry: A Socio-Military Profile of a Union Regiment," Missouri Historical Review (October 1981) 76#1 pp 53–77. Kamphoefner, Walter D., "Missouri Germans and the Cause of Union and Freedom," Missouri Historical Review, 106#2 (April 2012), 115 ...