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Title
Immigration raid
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Kamrass, Philip
Contributor
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued
1984
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Fifty undocumented immigrants were found packed in the garage at a Compton home on May 30, 1984, during a series of U.S. Border Patrol raids at six locations here and in San Diego that also netted 20 people suspected of directing the smuggling of as many as 20,000 immigrants into the country in the past ten months.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00045521
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b019_f3_i8; HE-002-378 4x5
CARL0000049691
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/16023
Subject
Illegal aliens--United States
Immigrants--United States
United States--Emigration and immigration
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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