Word: herrara
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GROWERS [UNDER CHAVEZ] WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO HIRE WORKERS": The growers rarely did hire their own workers. They had their "coyotes," the farm labor contractors like Mayor Frank Herrara. The growers relied on contractors who were responsible for "paying" the workers. As a court interpreter in Sacramento County Federal District Court, I found time and time again that contractors were about to pay their workers when out of nowhere the Immigration and Naturalization Services agents would appear. They would arrest the illegal workers and take them off to the Sacramento county jail. It was amazing how many "anonymous" phone...
Public sympathy against Chavez and the UFW in Delano is so strong that Mayor Frank Herrara and Assemblyman Bill Ketchum have been elected decisively in recent years while they have openly and bitterly opposed...
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