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Program Number: 10

 Item — Box: 7 LSF

Scope and Contents

Contents: Report: (Rebroadcast of 78-49) A special report on the plans of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service to build several miles of new fence, dubbed the Tortilla Curtain, along the U.S. - Mexican border. The analysis of the controversy provoked by the fence is explained through a series of interviews with individuals from the U.S. and Mexico, including Mexico's foremost expert on immigration matters, sociologist Jorge Bustamante.

Recorded: November 17, 1978

Final Production: February 7, 1979

[Air Date]: March 7, 1979

Timings: v.o. 27:01, m.o. 27:21

Repository Details

Part of the Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin Repository

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