October, 1948, 1948

From October 16 to 18, the NFLU held a conference at Laredo, Texas with the Confederacion Proletaria Nacional of Mexico in an effort to stop the illegal flow of Mexican farm workers into the United States; there is a summary report by Galarza on the conference (18). While the conference was in session, a flood of Mexicans crossed the border at El Paso, Texas and were taken into custody by the border patrol, which promptly turned them over to the USES for employment in Texas. On the El Paso incident, see Mitchell's telegram to President Truman (17), William Green's protests to Attorney General Tom Clark (21), and two lengthy reports from Galarza (24, 28)