Here’s a look at the history of armed groups, hired or self-appointed, patrolling the border:
An armed group in New Mexico whose leader faces
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 Civil War. Tensions were especially high during the Mexican Revolution as refugees attempted to cross over and escape the violence. In 1919, the Texas Rangers executed 15 Mexican American men and boys from Porvenir, Texas, in what would later be called the Porvenir Massacre. None of the Rangers served jail time, but the massacre would later lead to reforms.United Farm Workers President Cesar Chavez talks to striking Salinas Valley farmworkers on March 7, 1979.
Miriam Pawel, in her 2014 book “The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography,” wrote that the Mexican labor federation — the— broke with the United Farm Workers and denounced the “wet lines” as a campaign of terror. The labor group's leader, Francisco Modesto, said hundreds of beatings occurred and two men were castrated.In 1977,
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