"The Texas Rangers brutalized Mexican American communities in Texas. The rinches, as many Mexican Americans called them, were originally a group of deputized gunmen hired to protect the land of Anglo ranchers and farmers from perceived predators. The reality was that in most instances, Mexican Americans were trying to retrieve land stolen from them by Anglos."
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Reynaldo Anaya Valencia, JosĂ© Roberto Juárez, Henry Flores, Sonia R. GarcĂa, Mexican Americans & the Law: El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!, University of Arizona Press, (2004), p. xviii.
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