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AFL-CIO-Immigration Committee, 1993

 File — Box: 33, Folder: 3

Scope and Contents

Memo to Mazur from ILGWU officer Muzaffar Chishti re creation of AFL-CIO Committee on Immigration, focus on employer sanctions, August 30, 1993; memo to Mazur from Chishti recommending that he express opposition to employer sanctions, with talking points to immigration committee chair Bill Wynn, September 17; 1993; memo to Mazur from Chishti re talking points for meeting with NY Governor Mario Cuomo re immigration, with attached article by Cuomo from USA Today, July 27, 1993; Mazur Remarks to AFL-CIO Convention, 1993, re repel of employer sanctions; letter from AFL-CIO Department of Economic Research to INS, commenting on proposed rule, noting support for employer sanctions, June 23, 1993; Statement by Ralph F. Jimenez, president, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement to AFL-CIO Executive Council Committee on Immigration, urging repeal of employer sanctions, September 21, 1993; APALA (Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO) Resolution from August 1993 convention, “Fair Immigration Policy”; Report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, February 1992: “Civil Rights Issues Facing Asian Americans in the 1990s: Discrimination Caused by the Immigration and Reform and Control Act”; article by Mazur in Washington Post re Clinton’s support for NAFTA, “Not Yet Lemonade,” August 24, 1993; article in New York Times, “Study Sees Illegal Aliens in New Light,” September 2, 1993, with cover letters from Mazur to AFL-CIO immigration committee chair Bill Wynn, and from Wynn to rest of committee; article re California, “A Welcome for Immigrants Turns to Resentment,” New York Times, August 25, 1993; other newspaper clippings, many with cover memos to Mazur

Dates

  • 1993

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Conditions Governing Access

From the Collection:

The ILGWU Records, except for publications and materials produced for publication, are restricted. Materials created prior to twenty years from the current date are open to researchers only with prior written permission from the Director of the Kheel Center; materials created during the past twenty-years are closed; the minutes of the General Executive Board are closed. For more information contact the Kheel Center.

Extent

39 cubic feet

Repository Details

Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository

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