Does America Really Need a War On Mexican Migrants?
The federal government’s treatment of Mexican citizens in the 1930s didn’t stop Mexican Americans from serving in World War II. Here’s what Meier and Ribera wrote: More than 300,000 Mexican Americans served in the armed forces during World War II. Most enlisted in the army, and based on their percentage of the total population, more Chicanos served in combat divisions than any other ethnic group… Their valor helped them garner proportionately more military honors than any other ethnic group. Of 14 Texans awarded the Medal of Honor, five were Mexican Americans. By the end of the war 17 Mexican Americans had earned the Medal of Honor. Five were awarded posthumously. Does the United States today truly need a war on Mexican immigrants a Berlin Wall along our southern border or INS killings of illegal entrants or the forcible repatriation of Cuban refugees into communism or raids on American homes and businesses or deportations of fathers and mothers of American citizens – or foreigners d
