The chupacabra psychological war against migrants

In this psychological war, we are told that it is not brown people who are being targeted: Only the illegal ones (the ones not truly human).

This is the same psychological device that continues to permit segregation and discrimination…

Read the rest of Roberto Rodriguez’s essay at Column of the Americas

Mexican-American

In July 1846
Many Mexicans drowned themselves in the Rio Grande

They had been terrorized by gringo war volunteers
who desecrated their churches
and burned their homes

This was about land of course
and in a letter to Julia Dent
General Grant wrote of the war volunteers:

How much they seem to enjoy acts of violence
I would not pretend to guess the number of murders
that have been committed

The number would startle you