During the 1800s, they used Buffalo soldiers to round up and kill Mexicans along the border. I guess things have not changed much in the last two hundred years. Well, I exaggerate about the rounding up and killing, but they were complicit in the mass slaughter of hundreds of Mexican-Americans in the early 1900s.
If one Googles the role of the Buffalo Soldiers as Border Control Agents, one would find that they are described as protecting against Mexican bandits and the violence along the border. Of course, the only bandits were the Mexicans; everyone knows that the Gabacho race does not have bandits, or thieves; they are all perfect Christians in their behavior.
Este Chicano believes they were doing what they needed to survive, just like many of our coconuts still do.
The photograph is what got me thinking about the African-American border patrol agents. I didn’t think there were many, but they managed to find one to post.
According to July 2021 agency data, only 1.8% of Border Patrol agents were African American.Other sources from a similar time period also mention figures around 1%, highlighting a lack of representation.
Source AI when Google search
