why did the U.S. military attempt to hunt down mexican revolutionary pancho villa?

a. he conducted a raid in the state of new mexico in 1916
b. he attempted to assassinate president woodrow wilson in1917
c. he invaded texas in a attempt to return it to mexico in 1913
d. he published a letter that was highly critical of the united stated during WW1

Question

why did the U.S. military attempt to hunt down mexican revolutionary pancho villa?

a. he conducted a raid in the state of new mexico in 1916
b. he attempted to assassinate president woodrow wilson in1917
c. he invaded texas in a attempt to return it to mexico in 1913
d. he published a letter that was highly critical of the united stated during WW1

anonymous · Answer

Villa's dominance in northern Mexico was broken in 1915 through a series of defeats he suffered at Celaya and Agua Prieta at the hands of Álvaro Obregón and Plutarco Elías Calles. After Villa's famous raid on Columbus, New Mexico, in 1916, U.S. Army General John J. Pershing tried unsuccessfully to capture Villa in a nine-month pursuit that ended when the United States entered into World War I and Pershing was called back. Villa retired in 1920 and was given a large estate, which he turned into a "military colony" for his former soldiers.