"The Massacre," or "The Slaughter," was a period of anti-Mexican violence in Texas, including massacres and lynching, between 1910 and 1920 in the midst of tensions between the United States and Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.

La Matanza Many Mexican Americans know this story. Mexican refugees, looking to escape the violence of the revolution, began migrating to Texas, causing the Mexican population in the U.S. to triple during the early 1900s. Tensions between Mexico and the United States eventually led to violence between white Americans and Mexicans and the lynching of Mexicans.

Such brutal actions by the Texas Ranger Division made many Mexican landowners flee back to Mexico and, in some cases, leave because of their urgency of fear leaving behind land and livestock.

La Matanza in 2025 naw, it may not be massacres or slaughters as were in the history of Americans to Mexican Americans. But yes, deportation of immigrants and American-born people of all ethnic groups is occurring as we speak; many are terrorized and live in fear in 2025.

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