Thousands turned out Saturday to welcome nearly three dozen horses that trekked from the Columbus Port of Entry over three miles into the village center for the annual commemoration of Pancho Villa’s attack on the border community.

https://www.abqjournal.com/news/columbus-marks-1916-pancho-villa-raid-with-memorial-ride/3001075

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Today in Labor History March 15, 1916: President Woodrow Wilson sent 4,800 U.S. troops across the U.S.–Mexico border to hunt down Pancho Villa. He launched expedition in retaliation for Villa’s attack on the U.S. border town of Columbus, New Mexico. The expedition lasted nearly a year and they still failed to capture him. 65 U.S. soldiers and over 250 Mexican troops died in the fighting associated with the expedition.

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🎬 Villa Rides [Pancho Villa] (1968)

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Today in Labor History March 9, 1916: Pancho Villa led nearly 500 Mexican rebels in an attack against the U.S. border town of Columbus, New Mexico. It developed into a full-on battle between U.S. troops and Mexican revolutionaries. Villa led the assault himself. It angered President Woodrow Wilson so thoroughly that he sent U.S. troops into Mexico, but failed to capture Villa. The following year, vigilantes kidnapped and deported 1,300 striking IWW miners, many of whom were immigrant, from the mines of Bisbee, Arizona, to the New Mexico desert. Many were taken directly to Columbus, which was still under U.S. military occupation, in hopes that the soldiers there would attack the workers.

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Today in Labor History January 28, 1918: Ranchers, Texas Rangers, and the U.S. Army attacked the Mexican-American village of Porvenir, in West Texas, slaughtering 15 men and boys in their sleep. The remaining villagers fled town, which soldiers burned to the ground. The Rangers had been sent to stop banditry. They accused the villagers, without any evidence, of firing weapons at them. However, investigations by the Army and the State Department found that the villagers were unarmed. Activity by the Rangers along the border had increased in the wake of Pancho Villa’s 1916 raid on Columbus, New Mexico. Tensions were particularly high because of the December 25, 1918 raid on the Brite Ranch, in the same west Texas region as Porvenir, thought to have been committed by Villistas.

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