National Guard Sent to the Border…in 1916!

The situationalong the Mexico border was chaotic, even bloody, and the president of theUnited States reacted by calling out the U.S. Army and all 158,664 NationalGuard members to deal with the situation.

The presidentwasn’t George W. Bush. It was Woodrow Wilson. And the goal of the largestmilitary call-up since the Civil War wasn’t to keep out hundreds of thousandsof illegal immigrants. Instead, Wilson in 1916 was after one man, Mexicanbandit and revolutionary Francisco “Pancho” Villa, whose forces hadraided the border town of Columbus, N.M., killing 18 Americans.

Here’s the web address: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/17/MNGHMIT3QM1.DTL

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