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[emblem on each side] EL LABERINTO UNION ESTUDIANTIL DE CHICANOS E INDIOS vol.1-no.1 NATIONAL CHICANO/LATINO CONFERENCE ON IMMIGRATION AND PUBLIC POLICY A national conference on undocumented aliens in the U.S. has called for an eight-point plan in response to the Carter administration's immigration proposals and voted to take to the streets in support of that stand. The conference proposed: Unconditional amnesty for all undocumented aliens in the U.S. Establishment of a "just" minimum wage law for all workers in the U.S. and civil and criminal penalties for employers who violate these laws. Extension of constitutional rights, such as freedom from search and seizure, equal protection under the law and the right to counsel, to undocumented aliens. An open border with Mexico, much like the U.S. border with Canada, which is lightly patrolled, if at all, but has customs stations at major entry points. Disallowing U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service to increase the border patrols and that American funds not be used to build up police on either side of the border. An "immediate cessation of all deportations" of undocumented aliens in this country. Immediate removal of Klu Klux Klan patrols along the U.S.-Mexico border. Nationwide demonstrations against Carter's immigration policies Nov. 22 and a week of lobbying in Congress for the alternative plan developed by the conference beginning the first of the year. The National Chicano/Latino Conference On Immigration and Public Policy was held in San Antonio, Texas, October 28, 29, and 30, and drew about 2,000 delegates from 32 states. The Chicano-American Indian Cultural Center was represented at the conference. From the start of the conference, there was heated discussion over the controversial issue of "illigel immigration". But the thrust of the remarks were calls for unity in order to develop a strategy to counter the Carter plan. Midway through the proceedings, it appeared that time would run out on the delegates before any substantial action could be taken due to repeated haranguing over procedural questions. On the last day the resolution-finding meeting erupted in violent confrontation over the role of the Socialist Workers Party in the conference. For four hours, tempers flared as speaker after speaker attacked the SWP as a disruptive force and for seeking to use the conference for political gains. Emotional charges and accusations swept back and forth and it seemed that the conference was headed for failure. It was then that Texas Zavala County Judge Jose Angel Gutierrez jumped to the rostrum and in a fist pounding address demanded that delegates get on with voting on resolutions so they could be taken to Washington next month. The air having been cleared, it took only about a half-hour to adopt the eight-point policy, in sharp contrast with Carter's proposals pending before congress. MARCH 1978
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[emblem on each side] EL LABERINTO UNION ESTUDIANTIL DE CHICANOS E INDIOS vol.1-no.1 NATIONAL CHICANO/LATINO CONFERENCE ON IMMIGRATION AND PUBLIC POLICY A national conference on undocumented aliens in the U.S. has called for an eight-point plan in response to the Carter administration's immigration proposals and voted to take to the streets in support of that stand. The conference proposed: Unconditional amnesty for all undocumented aliens in the U.S. Establishment of a "just" minimum wage law for all workers in the U.S. and civil and criminal penalties for employers who violate these laws. Extension of constitutional rights, such as freedom from search and seizure, equal protection under the law and the right to counsel, to undocumented aliens. An open border with Mexico, much like the U.S. border with Canada, which is lightly patrolled, if at all, but has customs stations at major entry points. Disallowing U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service to increase the border patrols and that American funds not be used to build up police on either side of the border. An "immediate cessation of all deportations" of undocumented aliens in this country. Immediate removal of Klu Klux Klan patrols along the U.S.-Mexico border. Nationwide demonstrations against Carter's immigration policies Nov. 22 and a week of lobbying in Congress for the alternative plan developed by the conference beginning the first of the year. The National Chicano/Latino Conference On Immigration and Public Policy was held in San Antonio, Texas, October 28, 29, and 30, and drew about 2,000 delegates from 32 states. The Chicano-American Indian Cultural Center was represented at the conference. From the start of the conference, there was heated discussion over the controversial issue of "illigel immigration". But the thrust of the remarks were calls for unity in order to develop a strategy to counter the Carter plan. Midway through the proceedings, it appeared that time would run out on the delegates before any substantial action could be taken due to repeated haranguing over procedural questions. On the last day the resolution-finding meeting erupted in violent confrontation over the role of the Socialist Workers Party in the conference. For four hours, tempers flared as speaker after speaker attacked the SWP as a disruptive force and for seeking to use the conference for political gains. Emotional charges and accusations swept back and forth and it seemed that the conference was headed for failure. It was then that Texas Zavala County Judge Jose Angel Gutierrez jumped to the rostrum and in a fist pounding address demanded that delegates get on with voting on resolutions so they could be taken to Washington next month. The air having been cleared, it took only about a half-hour to adopt the eight-point policy, in sharp contrast with Carter's proposals pending before congress. MARCH 1978
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