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Jo Ann Santiago

Released
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:New York
Support
Communism
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Biography

Jo Ann Santiago, born in Canada in 1922 and brought to the United States at age six, was the wife of a Puerto Rican Communist leader. In 1959 she faced deportation after being denied an adjustment of status because she refused to answer questions about Communism; her case was on appeal.

Case

Charges: Deportation (Walter-McCarran Act) — refusal to answer questions about Communism
Sentence: Facing deportation; fighting removal
Convicted: Denied status adjustment; deportation proceedings on appeal