Biography
José Jacques Medina was a Mexican political exile, attorney and labor organizer in Los Angeles and a leader of CASA (Centro de Acción Social Autónomo), which organized undocumented workers. A veteran of Mexico's 1968 student-worker movement who had defended its political prisoners, he fled Mexico and was arrested by federal agents in March 1976 and turned over to the INS on an "illegal entry" charge. The Black Panther reported his fight against deportation and his denied bid for political asylum, framing it as U.S. collaboration with Mexican repression. He was later a Mexican federal deputy.
