Border Bandits Movie Essay

The movie, “Border Bandits” was produced and directed by Kirby Warnock, the grandson of Roland Warnock, and included the real voice of Roland Warnock to describe the events occurred in 1915. The movie featured the role of Mexican Immigrants and Texas Rangers. The story began through the rise of Mexican banditos raiding the McAllen Ranch, one of the largest in South Texas. Then, several Texas Rangers arrived and eliminated the perpetrators, but it does not reveal the entire story. It started with Ronald Warnock, a young teen cowboy who worked on the neighboring Guadalupe Ranch, witnessed two murders when he saw Texas Rangers shoot two unarmed men in the back and just left their bodies by the side of the road. He witnessed a car of Texas Rangers approach the two victims and fire upon them. The occupant of a car from which the shot was fired was Texas Ranger Captain Henry L. Ransom, Paul West, and driver W.W. Bill Sterling. And, …show more content…
We all got one common feature of Ronald Warnock who was a witnessed of the incident where two men killed by the Texas Rangers without their fault. Although Roland Warnock saw the occupant who fired the shoot, he cannot stop his own father’s death. The main question raised by all of us was, why the Mexican residents were mistreated during the early 20th century. And, we came to one reason which is maybe it’s because Texas Rangers wanted to occupy the McAllen Ranch and be superior. This made us look more deeply on those two victims, Jesus Bazan and Antonio Longoria character. The good side of Warnock was no support to the Texas Rangers. We believed that the story would be the examples regarding the establishment of Texas Rangers in the United States, and, also summarized how they behave with the Mexican residents during those time. In the end, we found out mistreatment to Mexican Immigrants by Texas Rangers occurred by killing