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Chicano conference programs and speeches, April 1973-May 1974
1973-04-14 Keynote Speech Page 5
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5 to ride the horses, refused to get together the cattle to bring to the markets to Kansas City and Omaha. This was the first vaquero strike in Texas, and the whole country for that matter. They too were soon lost because like the people in New Mexico, they were picked up and put on trains and deported. When Poncho Villa raided Columbus, New Mexico, they sent two gringos after him, General Pershing and Lieutenant Geneal Joseph Swain. They couldn't catch Poncho Villa. Joseph Swain was the same man who loaded Mejicanos by the thousands in box cars and tried to unload them or deport in the process of putting them in Columbus, New Mexico. The people of Columbus, remembering the raid of Poncho Villa refused to let these people disembark. So the Mejicanos, 1,300 strong, were forced to walk the desert from Columbus into Mexico. There were not more than 80 to 90 that survived. Joseph Swain, that same man was an anti-Mexican, a bitter racist, then became under Eisenhower the Commissioner of Immigration. While everyone one assumes the "white knight" Dwinght D. Eisenhower did not do anything for this country. Chicanos have a very bitter memory because this is the man who set quotas not on immigrants but on deportees. Under the regime of Eisenhower from the city of Los Angelos, 75,000 Chicanos were deported because that was the quota in the city os Los Angelos. Many of those people were not citizens of Mexico, they were citizens of this country. This question of citizenship is very interesting because we are made to feel we are foreigners, as if we do not belong here. There never was a referendum giving us a choice. We were here all this time, it was they who came to us through war and through conquest. So we are not migrating anywhere. If you do not accept that point, then take a more humane approach. You cannot separate the boold that runs in our veins. Behind every Chicano family there is a Mejicana. One of your roots from many of your families goes back to Mejico. So while the river may serve as a legal distinction between two countrys you can't separate culture and you can't divide language and you can't erase history and most of all, no se puede vivir con nuestra familia en este manera. So, all these attempts of deporting people because they are not citizens finally lead to two events. One, el plan de San Diego. El plan de San Diego was a very revolutionary plot. Mejicanos in San Diego, Tejas, got together and decided they were going to lash out, reconquer the Southwest, establish a provisional government and declare their independence from the United States. These men at that time, in 1915 already saw their solidarity with the Afro-American in the deeo south, with the Indian and the Oriental. These were planks in their revolutionary plan. And point six which caused much
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5 to ride the horses, refused to get together the cattle to bring to the markets to Kansas City and Omaha. This was the first vaquero strike in Texas, and the whole country for that matter. They too were soon lost because like the people in New Mexico, they were picked up and put on trains and deported. When Poncho Villa raided Columbus, New Mexico, they sent two gringos after him, General Pershing and Lieutenant Geneal Joseph Swain. They couldn't catch Poncho Villa. Joseph Swain was the same man who loaded Mejicanos by the thousands in box cars and tried to unload them or deport in the process of putting them in Columbus, New Mexico. The people of Columbus, remembering the raid of Poncho Villa refused to let these people disembark. So the Mejicanos, 1,300 strong, were forced to walk the desert from Columbus into Mexico. There were not more than 80 to 90 that survived. Joseph Swain, that same man was an anti-Mexican, a bitter racist, then became under Eisenhower the Commissioner of Immigration. While everyone one assumes the "white knight" Dwinght D. Eisenhower did not do anything for this country. Chicanos have a very bitter memory because this is the man who set quotas not on immigrants but on deportees. Under the regime of Eisenhower from the city of Los Angelos, 75,000 Chicanos were deported because that was the quota in the city os Los Angelos. Many of those people were not citizens of Mexico, they were citizens of this country. This question of citizenship is very interesting because we are made to feel we are foreigners, as if we do not belong here. There never was a referendum giving us a choice. We were here all this time, it was they who came to us through war and through conquest. So we are not migrating anywhere. If you do not accept that point, then take a more humane approach. You cannot separate the boold that runs in our veins. Behind every Chicano family there is a Mejicana. One of your roots from many of your families goes back to Mejico. So while the river may serve as a legal distinction between two countrys you can't separate culture and you can't divide language and you can't erase history and most of all, no se puede vivir con nuestra familia en este manera. So, all these attempts of deporting people because they are not citizens finally lead to two events. One, el plan de San Diego. El plan de San Diego was a very revolutionary plot. Mejicanos in San Diego, Tejas, got together and decided they were going to lash out, reconquer the Southwest, establish a provisional government and declare their independence from the United States. These men at that time, in 1915 already saw their solidarity with the Afro-American in the deeo south, with the Indian and the Oriental. These were planks in their revolutionary plan. And point six which caused much
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