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Felixbert Serrano, chairman of the permanent United Nations delegation from the Philippines will give the keynote speech on the topic, "The United Nations: A Review and Prognosis...
Calluses & Quotas. Serrano had no thought of becoming a wetback, a border-jumper. Instead, he wanted to be a bracero, a legal farm worker entitled to full protection of U.S. laws under the U.S.Mexican Migrant Labor Agreement. Of the two required qualifications, one came naturally for Serrano: callused hands to prove that he was a genuine farm worker...
...second requirement was not so simple: good-conduct clearance from the local town hall. Other braceros, however, provided a tip. Serrano could pester officials and wait-or he could put up a few hundred pesos to bribe the "coyote," a man with unexplained but indisputable pull among town officials. Coyote Raúl Díaz readily confirmed the advice. "You pay," he said, "and you go." Serrano was bewildered and angry. "We are needed," he argued. "We are asked to go. Why should...
Ancient & Entrenched. In both Mexico City and Washington last week, top officials anxiously agreed that Serrano* and thousands like him had a point. By beefing up its border patrol, the U.S. has cut wetback border crossings drastically; deportations, which averaged 80,000 a month in the 14 months before last September, are now running at less than 10,000 a month. The immigration machinery is running smoothly enough to handle an expected record number-350,000 to 400,000-of legal migrant workers this year. The coyote and his "bite" are left as the machinery's only serious defect...
...Labor Department officials are deeply concerned, and Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines has been trying hard to get guilty officials fired and jailed. But the bite is an ancient, entrenched custom in Mexico. Serrano, for one, could not wait. With 300 pesos, a big bite out of the savings that must provide for his wife and family while he is away, he paid the coyote. Last week he crossed the border and headed, literally and figuratively, for the lettuce...