Wilfredo Puentes

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Hispanic
Era:1930s
State:Florida
Support
Communism Labor Organizing
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Biography

Wilfredo Puentes was Lorenzo's seventeen-year-old son, held for deportation with his father in the 1937 Tampa, Florida deportation case.

Case

Charges: No formal criminal charges — deportation proceedings to Cuba (Tampa Communist and cigar-union activity)
Arrested: 1937
Sentence: Held pending deportation; defended by the ILD. Verdict as recorded: Held for deportation, 1937
Convicted: No

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