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University of Texas at El Paso

1979

El Paso-Police Department

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Interview No. 610, Bill Rodríguez May 1979

Interview No. 610, Bill Rodríguez

Combined Interviews

Grew up in El Paso; experiences in high school; experiences as person of Mexican-Anglo heritage; worked as mathematician's aid in White Sands, New Mexico; worked in Puerto Rico as a management trainee; attitudes toward Puerto Ricans; police brutality in El Paso in 1950s; career as a police officer in El Paso

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Interview No. 399, Bob Wickham May 1979

Interview No. 399, Bob Wickham

Combined Interviews

Born in Carla, Pennsylvania (10/31/49). Traveled in South America and Europe. Graduated from the Police Academy. Attending UTEP. Contact with illegal juvenile delinquents (Downtown, El Paso). Incidents involving children ages 5 to 14. Stories about young illegal delinquents, cigarette vendors, maids, and prostitutes. Problems on the Cordoba bridge. Organization of the foot-patrol in El Paso area.

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Interview No. 409, Juan Borjon May 1979

Interview No. 409, Juan Borjon

Combined Interviews

Born in Fabens, Texas (1936). High School education. Graduated from the Police Academy. 19 years working for the Police. Held different offices. Contact with illegal aliens, 1960-79. Incidents involving illegal juvenile delinquents (their use of sprays), cigarette-vendors, maids, shoe-shine boys; prostitutes (pay rates, abuses they receive, places they frequent). Attitudes of Juarez authorities toward illegals; what they should do to solve their people's problems. How U.S. could stop illegals along the border.

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Interview No. 408, Guadalupe Perez May 1979

Interview No. 408, Guadalupe Perez

Combined Interviews

Nacida en Cd. Juarez, en donde ha vivido siempre con su familia. Trabajo en R.C.A. y AMPEX (de Mexico). En busca de mejor salario vino a El Paso como trabajadora domestica (ilegal). Migracion la detuvo las dos primeras veces que intento cruzar ilegalmente, sintio miedo por lo desconocido. Cuenta el procedimiento usado por ella y otros ilegales para cruzar a El Paso. Desea terminar sus estudios y continuar con una carrera. Cuenta sobre el destino que da al dinero que gana.

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