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San Diego - Border, 1975 May-1978 November

 File — Box: 732, Folder: 1
Identifier: Folder 1

Scope and Contents

A collection of letters, agendas, reports & memos. Examples are: Stapled packet containing 1 letter from Cristobal P. Aldrete (Federal Cochairman, Southwest Border Regional Commission) to Congressman Wilson (11/29/78) & attached copies (6 pp.) of SBRC Seminar on Federal Border Activities’ Agenda & Participants -- to he held 11/13-14/79 at Tucson, AZ; 1 photocopy of a letter (10/25/79) from Alberto R. Garcia (Chairman, Community Border Affairs Advisory Council) to Congressman Lionel Van Deerlin re/ the CBAAC “voted unanimously to seek your assistance to recognize The Border Field State Park” and to stop the Border Patrol from “trying to build a tortilla fence along the Mexican border” at the Park site; stapled packet containing 1 letter (10/5/78) from Cristobal P. Aldrete, attached copies of “Preliminary Agenda” for the SBRC Seminar to be held in Tucson, AZ, 1 worksheet for “Border Priorities Needing Effective Interagency Coordination” & 1 copy of “Seminar of Federal Border Activities --Statement of Purpose;” stapled packet containing copies of corresp. (Ap.-June 1978) from Congressman Wilson, James J. O’Keefe (Dist. Dir., INS), Leonel J. Castillo (Commissioner, INS), Thomas J. Lehar (M.D., Rees-Steely Medical Clinic), R.E. Chasen (Commissioner of Customs) & 3 copies of “New border stink,” San Diego Magazine (4/1/78) re/ Dr. Lehar & Congressman Wilson’s attempts to get the INS to provide adequate restrooms to “serve an average traffic flow of 110,000 persons per day who are departing the United States to Mexico;” large packet containing “Memo To: Boss, Terrar, From: Karen” (4/4/78), letters (Mar. & Feb., 1978) from Barry Fadem (Ex. Dir., CA office of the Southwest Border Regional Commission) & C. Roberto De La Madrid (Governor, Baja California, Mexico), 3 page photocopy of Secretary of Human Settlements and Public Works, Mexico, “A Second International Border Crossing, Tijuana, Baja California” & Comprehensive Planning Organization and the Calif. Office of the Southwest Border Regional Commission, “The International Border Crossing; Otay Mesa - Mesa De OTAY” (40 pages -- with appended note “Draft for Discussion Not Approved”); stapled packet containing 1 letter (1/4/78) from Congressman Wilson & 7 letters (12/77) from Frank J. Call (Ex.Dir., Organization of U.S. Border Cities) & attachments concerning topics such as “Resolution #7 Trade Restrictions,” “Resolution #9 Drug Abuse,” “LEAA Funding Application,” “Resolution #3 HUD Revisions Re: Site Selection;” & “Resolution #6 Federal Aviation Agency Resolution;” 1 letter from Supervisor Jim Bates (Chairman, S.D. County Bd. of Supervisors) to Congressman Wilson & attached “Resolution #210 (11/1/77) voicing the Board’s “deep concern about and opposition to Ku Klux Klan activity in our County” & requesting Wilson’s “support of our resolution;” stapled copies of letters from Ruben R. Rains (Supervisory Immigration Inspector, San Ysidro Port of Entry) to Congressman Wilson & to S.D. Mayor Pete Wilson & Bob Wilson’s reply to Mr. Rains (Oct.& Nov. 1977) re/ Mr. Rains’ extensive report on the Ku Klux Klan visit to the border & a critique of Mayor Wilson’s “uninformed” responses to the incident; stapled packet containing corresp. from Congressmen Peter W. Rodino, Jr. & Bob Wilson, CA Attorney General Evelle J. Younger & Jack H. Watson, Jr. (The White House) (May-Aug. 1977) re/ Attorney General Younger’s report to President Carter based on the “Southwestern States Conference on Crime and the Border” (4/77); 1 letter from constituent Mrs. A. W. Prather & Wilson’s reply (8/77) re/ spending more money hiring extra police officers to prevent crimes than “hiring extra immigration officers to keep illegal aliens from crossing the border;” 1 letter from Senator Lloyd Bentsen to Congressman Wilson (2/8/77) re/ “I hope you will be able to attend the meeting with President Carter” (2/9/77) on U.S. - Mexico border relations -- six major concerns were to be discussed; 1 letter from constituent Robert M Witajewski & Wilson’s reply (Jan.-Feb. 1977) re/ complaints about taking “30 - 45 minutes to breech the San Ysidro ‘wall’ .... no one should ever have to wait more than 15 min. to re-enter;” large, stapled packet containing corresp. from Mrs. Pearle Faulkner, Congressman Wilson, Albert G. Bergesen (Regional Commissioner, Dept. of the Treasury), John D. Robison (Acting Dir., Insp. & Control Div., Treasury) (Ap.-June 1976) re/ challenging “a $100 penalty assessed Mr. Paul Faulkner at San Ysidro, California on April 7, 1976;” small, stapled packet containing corresp. (Nov. 1975-Jan. 1976) from Congressman Dante B. Fascell (Chairman, Subcommittee on International Political and Military Affairs), William T. Coleman, Jr. (The Sec. of Transportation), Joel W. Biller (Acting Dep. Asst. Sec. for Transp. & Telecomm., Dept. of State) & William M. Nichols (Acting General Counsel, OMB) & attached copy of “Draft Executive Order ... Establishing Procedures for the Consideration of Application for the Construction of International Bridges and Supplementing the International Bridge Act of 1974;” stapled packet containing corresp. (May-June 1975) from Congressman Wilson, John R. Bartels, Jr. (Admin. DEA) & the complaint of constituent Clarence Morris “regarding importation of hard drugs from Mexico” & the need for the U.S. & Mexico to take a firmer stand to control this criminal activity.

Dates

  • created: 1975 May-1978 November

Creator

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Extent

From the Collection: 0.00 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

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