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SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Immigration Commissioner Leonel
Castillo told a newspaper Tuesday he approved of the so-called “Tor
tilla Curtain” plan to fence out Mexican aliens on the border at key
crossing points in Texas, Arizona and California.
Castillo said he “inherited” the idea of the fences from the Ford
Administration and Congress, but that he probably would have made
the same decision had it been up to him.
“I’m required by my oath to control and prevent (illegal) entry,”
Castillo told the San Antonio Light. “We are told to regulate entry
and this (fencing) is one option.
"In an urban area, such as El Paso, this fence may be effective.
We've had a lot of violence in California with aliens being beaten,
robbed and murdered. Maybe the fence will help out there. WeTl
just have to see.”
Three weeks ago, Castillo let a $2 million contract to build fences
along the U.S.-Mexico border at El Paso and San Diego, Calif., the
two busiest ports of entry for illegal aliens.
He said Congress also approved construction of a similar fence at
San Luis, Ariz., two years ago.
.and con
United Press International
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — “The Tortilla Curtain,” the Immi-
ation and Naturalization Service’s proposed fence to prevent illegal
aliens from crossing from Juarez, Mexico, to El Paso, is a contradic-
onofthe Carter administration’s human rights policy and a symbol
(“oppression and repression,” Mexican-American leaders say.
Several Chicano leaders Monday also denounced the planned $1.4
Imillion, 6.5-mile long, 12-foot tall steel and mesh barrier — and a
Isimilar structure proposed for San Diego, Calif — as financially im-
jpractical.
I After discussing the matter with LULAC leaders, Ruben Bonilla,
■state director of the League of United Latin American Citizens, Na-
Itional LULAC President Eduardo Pena and Rep. Paul Moreno, D-El
■Paso, issued a statement of "unanimous outrage” and said the wall is
I'a politically naive decision that could prove to be a colossal political
Iblunder.”
“It astounds me to no end that our administration should talk in the
Imost evangelical terms about human rights abroad while still ignoring
Ihuman rights of persons of Mexican ancestry,” Bonilla said.
olunteers to test vaccine
Castillo said construction of the 5.98-mile fence at San Diego and
the 7.7-mile fence at El Paso should begin within 60 days, while the
Arizona contract will be awarded later.
The 12-foot tall steel and wire mesh fence to be built at El Paso will
be slanted toward Mexico and made so it will wobble to prevent easy
climbing, INS officials said. Mexican-American officials angrily de
nounced the fence as another “Berlin Wall” and said the idea of
fencing would deter illegal crossing and was “asinine” because the
fences cover only a miniscule stretch of the 1,933-mile long border.
“Even though we think the fence will be somewhat of a deterrent,
we aren’t naive enough to think this will stop people from crossing
who really want to come to this country,” Castillo said. “We hope it
will cause people (aliens) to use more smugglers so we can concen
trate our efforts on smugglers instead of spending all our resources on
the individuals.”
Castillo added the fences may cause aliens to cross the Rio Grande
at areas where there are no fences, such as Laredo.
“We just don’t know what the effect of it will be yet. We have to
test it out.”
“A wall is symbolic of oppression and repression. A wall of the type
being proposed has no place in a free society.”
Mario Compean, La Raza Unida Party candidate for governor,
likened the Tortilla Curtain to World War II concentration camp
tactics and called it a blatant waste of money.
“The ridiculous part is, here we re talking about saving money,
how hard it is on people to pay taxes and then they’re going to flush
that much down the toilet on a fence,” he said.
Bonilla said the idea was so “preposterous” that he thought it was
some kind of joke when he first heard it.
“We were beginning to think we were off base in criticizing the
administration on maladministration of justice. Then just when we
had our hopes up, here comes a decision almost barbaric in its over
tones-
Bonilla said it was naive for the INS to think that after Mexicans
had traveled 400 miles that they would be deterred from crossing into
the United States by a 6.5-mile long wall, when more than 1,900
more miles of border could be crossed.
Many Democratic candidates or
their representatives will meet
Thursday with the public to answer
questions and discuss election is
sues.
The meeting, sponsored by the
local Mexican-American Democrats
organization, will begin at 7:30 at
the La Fiesta ballroom.
The meeting is open to anyone,
MAD chairman Daniel Hernandez
said.
Phil Gramm, running for the U.S.
House of Representatives from the
Sixth Congressional District, will be
there. Hernandez said that repre
sentatives for U.S. Senate hopeful
Bob Krueger and gubernatorial
candidate Johmill will attend.
A representative for Mark White,
candidate for state attorney general,
may also attend, Hernandez said.
Local candidates who will be
there include Dick Holmgreen,
county judge candidate; Travis
Bryan III, candidate for 85th district
attorney; Bobby Yeager, county
sheriff candidate; and Buddy Winn,
running for County Tax Assessor-
Collector.
John Barron Jr., county attorney
candidate, and W.T. McDonald Jr.,
85th district judge candidate, may
also be there, Hernandez said.
There will be a reception for the
candidates following the speeches.
A&M stalks Russian
By BECKY DOBSON
Battalion Reporter
|More than 3,000 volunteers are
eded to help doctors from Texas
University and the Baylor
pllege of Medicine test a Russian
i vaccine.
This is the biggest and most de
rive study of the vaccine, ” said Dr.
bhn M. Quarles, a virologist with
Texas A&M’s College of Medicine.
is a culmination of 15 years of
prk.”
jThe vaccine, made up of virus
l/fivated in eggs, will be tested in
lo phases. ' '
llhe first phase will begin Monday
Id will involve 200 volunteers.
Jipervision of Phase I will be more
Itense than the second part of the
pdy, Quarles says. Volunteers will
! given the vaccine in the form of
bse drops.
I For the next seven days, the re-
Jarchers will take a throat swab
nple from each participant, who
be observed for side effects,
od samples of 20 cubic centimet-
ne and one half tablespoonfuls)
pl be taken as each person enters
study and after three to five
leeks. A third blood sample will be
|en several weeks later.
Side effects of the vaccine are
similar to the symptoms of a cold.
Quarles said a slight temperature
and runny nose may be experi
enced.
The researchers plan to study the
blood samples to find the degree of
immunity which the vaccine pro
duces and to see how many of the
participants contract the flu if there
is an outbreak this winter.
The experiment has been ap
proved by Texas A&M’s committee
for review of research with humans
and by human experiment commit
tees at Baylor College ot Medicine
and the National Institute of Health.
Volunteers for the study must be
between the ages of 18 and 25, have
no acute or chronic illness and no
allergy to feathers or eggs. Compen
sation will be up to $75. No preg
nant women will be allowed to par
ticipate in the study.
Dr. Claude Goswick, director of
Beutel Health Center, will assist
Quarles in directing the study along
with Dr. Robert Couch and Dr.
Tom Cate from the Baylor College
of Medicine.
A similar study was run last year
on two preventative medications for
the Russian flu. Quarles said he was
pleased with the results of that
study.
The study determined that one of
the medications, amantadine, was
effective and the other, riman
tadine, was not. Only two people
were dropped from 454 participants
in that study because of side effects,
Quarles said.
Quarles will hold two informa
tional meetings on the study this
week in Heldenfels Hall. One will
be today at 1 p.m. in Room 118. The
other is scheduled for Room 111
Friday at 10 a.m.
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