Robby, we've already got thousands of pistoleros on the streets of LA
...and San Antonio, and Dallas, and Houston, and Phoenix, and....
You need to reflect on what the border was like before 1920. Ponco Villa is just a movie character to most people today. Then he was an alternative government in Mexico, Then there were a relative handful of Mexicans on our side of the border. Such a leader today would have followers in Chicago.