“In 1978, The Paris News ran a flagrantly racist story on a ‘New Order’ of Mexican immigrants who came to the U.S. to ‘rape, rob, mug, burgle, pimp, whore, shoplift, and vandalize.’ [The author] …. fondly recalled what he thought of as the good Mexican immigrant of previous days who toiled hard for low wages in order to feed his family. The ‘invasion phenomenon’ he mourned was changing dramatically as a predator class swarmed into the country. ‘The ‘wetback’ of old are today being joined a new and thoroughly reprehensible order,’ and the immigrants were looking for plunder, not labor. …. [He] mourned again the disappearance of the lost ‘old’ style immigrant ― and the disappearance of lynching which had once dealt with these outlaws. ‘Jose with the sombrero? It’s a quaint but dated picture. The truth is many Mexicans are now using America, in the same way Americans once used Mexico, to raise hell and quick money. The difference is that border plunderers are not hung anymore; at best they are merely sent home to rest up until the next time.” (pp. 44-45.)
Campney, BMS (2018). The most turbulent and traumatic years in recent Mexican-American history: Police violence and the civil rights struggle in 1970s Texas. Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 76(1): 33-57
Citing – “Alien Publicity Blamed for Brutality,” Paris News, May 17, 1978
[Note: Just to be clear that is Paris, Texas, which is in a county located at the far northeast of the state and adjacent to Oklahoma. It is not in a location that would have put it far from any turmoil on La Frontera. The reason for such a vitriolic editorial on Mexican immigrants is probably more closely related to the county’s horrible history of race relations between African-Americans and Anglos and its gruesome history of violence (including lynchings) against African-Americans—ATexican]
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