Biography
Constancio Cargado was a Portland member of the Filipino cannery workers’ union and helped defend fellow unionist Casimiro Bueno Absolor. Immigration agents took Cargado to the county jail in early 1951 under the McCarran Act. Community and union protests secured his release on bail about a week later, but the surviving account does not give exact dates. Cargado died of a heart attack in the spring of 1952, and immigration officials closed his deportation case that May.
