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Francisco Medina

Era:1930s
State:California
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Biography

The June 24 Pixley report in the July 9 Western Worker identifies FranciscoMedina as a leader in the 1933 cotton strike, arrested October 10 on the day of the Pixley killings. He was held in Visalia, Tulare County for five months and then Fresno for one-and-a-half months pending deportation, which the report says actually occurred June 21, 1934, to Mexico. It alleges officials offered release if he gave up the Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union, which he refused. These reported durations are preserved as contemporary estimates, without forcing them into a continuous exact-day total. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/westernworker/1934/v3-n27-31-jul-1934.pdf#page=4

Case

Charges: Immigration detention and deportation following cotton-strike organizing.
Arrested: Oct 10, 1933
Released: Jun 21, 1934
Sentence: Reported five months in Visalia followed by one-and-a-half months in Fresno immigration detention; deported to Mexico on June 21, 1934. Reported duration is approximate, not a measured exact-day total.