From the Texas Rangers to members of Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers, APExplains the history of militias patrolling the U.S. border with Mexico.
drew national attention last month for detaining asylum-seeking Central American families near the U.S.-Mexico border.
Slavery had been abolished in Mexico, and slaves from as far as Alabama sought to escape to Mexico through the southern Underground Railroad before the U.S. Civil War. During the early 1900s, the Texas Rangers operated with impunity along the Texas-Mexico border on the grounds that they were protecting U.S. residents from Mexican outlaws who would cross over and raid ranches. But, according to historians, the Texas Rangers often attacked Mexican Americans in Texas border towns, raiding homes without warrants, torturing suspects and sometimes killing innocent people.
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