1918
- On November 3, 1918, Frank Berkshire (The Father of the Border Patrol), submitted his final proposal for the creation of the Border Patrol. In this proposal, Berkshire was instructed to submit absolute minimums. He proposed a force of 264 Border Patrolmen for the southern border which would absorb all Mounted Watchmen. This proposal would be approved by the Acting Secretary on November 12, 1918. However, implementation wouldn't occur until 1924 after several years of interdepartmental meetings and once funding was received (pg 240).
- In one of the earliest references to a Border Patrol intelligence unit, the District Director of the Detroit District wrote a memo to the Commissioner-General on November 3, 1925, concerning the excellent results of a sub-district's "so-called "Intelligence Division".
- On November 4, 1925, a vender write a memo to the Commissioner-General concerning Border Patrol and Immigrant Inspector uniforms.
- On November 1, 1930, a gunfight occurred in El Paso between three Border Patrol Inspectors and a person known as "Chato". This document contains a cover memo an a sworn statement of one of the Border Patrol Inspectors. Chato was wounded and is suspected to have died in Mexico due to his wounds.
- In 1932, Frank Berkshire (The Father of the Border Patrol) was the Director of the Canadian Border District (which was the northern border Chief of the Border Patrol at the time). On November 1, 1932, Berkshire wrote a memo to the Commissioner-General his concurrence for a new uniform coat.
- It is believed that by 1936 it was known that portions of the Department of Labor were going to be transferred to the Department of Justice. This memo, written November 2, 1936 by the Deputy Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), is his response to the the INS losing the Border Patrol, most likely in response to such a transfer.
- They don't write like this anymore - In reply to your letter of the 27th ultimo, it is a rather difficult task to so untangle the strands that bind the Border Patrol to other branches of the Service into a single unit as to arrive at any accurate measure of added staff necessities with the Border Patrol arm of the Service removed.
- On October 31, 1940, the Chief Patrol Inspector of the Being Bend Sub-district wrote a memo to the El Paso District Director containing his suggestions of outpost stations and their designs.
- On November 5, 1998, the U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry created the spec sheets for the USBP flag and USBP Pennant. Both designs would be officially approved on June 11, 1999.
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