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...Leonel Castillo, the next talker. This former director of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service saw the American Dream up close: his job was to apportion it. "I'm torn" he says...
...proposed erection of a six-and-a-half-mile-long fence at El Paso, which would only have diverted immigrants to the other 1993 miles of unfenced border, was more an instance of window-dressing than of a sincere attempt to slow unlawful migration of impoverished Mexicans. INS Commissioner Leonel Castillo, whose grandparents were Mexican immigrants, has instituted policies more sympathetic to the plight of the immigrant. Not only has he reduced to half the personnel working to seize Mexicans living illegally in the United States, he has also upgraded the detention centers where illegal immigrants are housed before being...
...Leonel J. Castillo, Commissioner...
...month, compared with 21,300 in August of last year. Says a Border Patrol agent: "They are anticipating that they are going to heaven in the U.S. where all the goodies are." Many of them probably never heard of Carter's program. "And even if they knew," says Leonel Castillo, Immigration and Naturalization commissioner, "the prime factor is jobs." No matter why they come, many of their predecessors are say ing, the goodies may ultimately be harder to come by than ever...
Continuing Burden. As he prepares his amnesty along with his crackdown, Carter made another gesture of good will toward the immigrant community by nominating a Mexican-American, Leonel J. Castillo, 37, to be INS commissioner. Born and raised in Texas, Castillo served in the Peace Corps, then returned to Texas to lead a desegregation fight in Houston. He was elected Houston controller in 1971 and was twice reelected. Although he has yet to be confirmed by the Senate, Castillo has already worked with Attorney General Griffin Bell on the new program...