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# They Lost Their Land Through Murder and Theft
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/voces/extras/they-lost-their-land-through-murder-and-theft-dova1u/
- Published: 2024-04-02T22:58:08.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-22T10:24:38.000Z
- Description: In the early 1900s, many Mexican-Americans lost their ranches to fraud and violence.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: VOCES, #ZZZ_Show_535dc1dd-e54d-4beb-b75e-b9c10968484f, #v1.7, #ZZZ_Extra_3f7b838d-203b-4f0d-bf12-2ee998f8fd0e, #extra

During the early 1900s attorneys, land promoters and developers enticed Anglo newcomers to stake land claims and fence off land along the Texas-Mexico border. As land values and property taxes rose, many Mexican-American farmers lost their land through murder, theft or swindling, forcing them to become laborers because they had no other way to make a living.