“on jan. 28, 1917, a 17-year-old juarez maid named carmelita torres, who crossed the border daily...
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“On Jan. 28, 1917, a 17-year-old Juarez maid named Carmelita Torres, who crossed the border daily to clean houses in El Paso, refused to take a bath and be disinfected. Press accounts estimated that, by noon, she was joined
by "several thousand" demonstrators at the border bridge. The protest became known as "the Bath Riots."
Carmelita Torres
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The Bath RiotsIndignity Along the
Mexican Border
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Mexican Border Crossers were not considered illegal until 1917.
illegal: (adj) contrary to law
“No Human Being is Illegal.” ~Elie Wiesel
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“The local Anglo press did everything it could to sensationalize the typhus threat from Mexico, although one U.S. Public Health Service official stated that the typhus problem in El Paso was no worse than it was in most major cities in the U.S. In 1917, there were 31 typhus cases in the U.S. and only
three typhus-related fatalities in El Paso.”
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/feb/27/opinion/oe-romo27
The Bath Riots: Indignity Along the Mexican BorderJanuary 28, 2006 • For decades, U.S. health authorities used noxious
chemicals to delouse Mexicans at border crossings. A new book details violence that followed a 17-year-old Mexican maid's refusal to take a
gasoline bath.
http://www.npr.org/books/authors/138363749/david-dorado-romo
David Dorado Romo
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1917, Santa Fe BridgeEl Paso, Tx
At no other US port of entry were human beings
subjected to cleansings
Mexican Cleansings:DDT, Zyclon B, Kerosene, Gasoline
127,000 people went through the cleansing in 1917 Cleansings Continued through the late 50s
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DISINFECTING ROOMS
SANTA FE BRIDGEEL PASO, TEXAS
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