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Maria Bejareno Gonzales

Full name:Maria Gonzales
Era:1930s
State:Arizona
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Biography

Maria Bejareno Gonzales was a foreign-born worker whom the Daily Worker of February 7, 1935, page 2, reports was deported to Mexico the previous week because of her Communist Party membership. The account places her deportation within an Arizona campaign against militant immigrant workers. Her name is transcribed from the scan; exact removal date, prior detention, conviction and actual custody duration are not supplied. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n033-Nat-feb-07-1935-DW-LOC.pdf

Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 262. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.

Case

Charges: Deportation on grounds of Communist Party membership, according to the contemporary defense report.
Sentence: Deported to Mexico in the week preceding February 7, 1935; no exact date or prior physical confinement established.