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When the Los Angeles City Council passed a resolution declaring the city a "sanctuary" for those "who have fled their country for fear of persecution on the basis of their political beliefs," the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service was less than overjoyed. The resolution, which calls for city employees not...
It is precisely this political conviction that disturbs INS officials, causing them to question the motives of the movement. Says INS Spokesman Verne Jervis: "What these churches are doing is making a statement of protest against our Government's position in Central America. If they're just interested...
Before the White House portico Mr. Roosevelt kept his seat in the car, waited a few minutes for President Hoover to join him for the ride up Capitol Hill. A lift of silk hats, a quick handshake, a few formal words and their greeting was over. With the country'...
· This Was Harlem: 1900-1950, Jervis Anderson
Across the country, similar raids were conducted last week as a special strike force of 400 INS investigators and Border Patrol officers fanned out to search for undocumented workers in a $500,000 operation dubbed Project Jobs. In five days, more than 300 raids netted nearly 5,400 such workers...