The elder Hanigan died of a heart attack ; after three trials, one of the Hanigan sons was convicted in federal court and sentenced to three years and the other was found not guilty. Garcia founded the American GI Forum to address the concerns of Mexican American veterans who were being discriminated against. The anti-Mexican feelings can also be directed against other Latino American nationalities in the USA, even though anti-Mexican sentiment exists in some Caribbean and Latino groups. Thus, Hispanic Americans comprised 2.