Bad Hombres; From Stolen Lands to Stolen Lives - How America Criminalized Being Mexican

by Juan Rodrigez Aceves

They called us criminals. They called us invaders. They called us "bad hombres." But the real crime is what America has done to Mexican families for 175 years-and gotten away with is not another immigration book. This is an the moment America stole half of Mexico in 1848, Mexican people have been targets of systematic exploitation and elimination. We've been invited when America needed our labor, then hunted when we became inconvenient. We've paid billions in taxes while being denied benefits. We've built American prosperity while being called Bracero Program wasn't a partnership-it was organized slavery. Operation Wetback wasn't law enforcement-it was ethnic cleansing. Family separations weren't mistakes-they were deliberate torture. The drug war isn't about stopping drugs-it's about blaming Mexico for American 've watched our children caged, families separated, communities terrorized-while politicians profit from our suffering and voters reward them for it. Private prison companies get rich caging our children. Politicians own stock in detention centers. The deportation business converts our misery into shareholder lie justifying our persecution is exposed here. Every politician profiting from our destruction is named. Every system converting our suffering into American wealth is people aren't the problem-American policies that exploit and eliminate us are the reckoning is here. The lies are exposed. The time for justice is what they don't want you to know. Join the fight that can no longer be 175 years of persecution must truth will set us free-but first, you must know it.