Biography
Marcial Peralta was a Local 7 union member arrested while working on a Delano farm during the February–March 1951 immigration sweep. The Los Angeles Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born loaned his $1,000 bail bond, and the union secured bail for the remaining detainees by the end of March.
Marcial Peralta was a Local 7 union member arrested while working on a Delano farm during the February–March 1951 immigration sweep. The Los Angeles Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born loaned his $1,000 bail bond, and the union secured bail for the remaining detainees by the end of March.
De Vera distinguishes his ground of deportability from the past Communist Party membership alleged against nine fellow union members: authorities classified him as an undesirable alien because of an earlier felony conviction whose sentence he had already served. Neither that earlier sentence’s duration nor exact immigration custody endpoints are provided.
