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Rodolfo Lozoya

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Hispanic
Era:1950s
State:Texas
Support
Labor Organizing Civil Liberties United Electrical Workers (UE)
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Biography

Rodolfo Lozoya was a Mexican-American shop steward and disabled Air Force veteran, in the U.S. 29 years, refused re-entry from Juarez in January 1957 as an 'excludable alien' charged with Communist Party membership under the McCarran-Walter Act. Stranded in Mexico and threatened with arrest and prosecution if he crossed, he left a wife and seven U.S.-born children on relief in Chicago.

Case

Charges: McCarran-Walter Act — exclusion
Sentence: Excluded from the U.S.; threatened with arrest Charges as recorded: McCarran-Walter Act — exclusion for alleged Communist Party membership
Convicted: Barred re-entry January 1957; awaiting a hearing