Here are a few other cases that made national headlines. Deported as a ChildWhen President Richard Nixon sought to make inroads among Latino voters in his re-election campaign, he nominated Romana Acosta Bañuelos, a Mexican-American woman, to be the treasurer of the United States, the official in charge of the nation’s currency. During her Senate confirmation in 1971, government agents raided the food company she had founded in Los Angeles and found immigrants working there who were undocumented. Though the Mexican-American labor activist Cesar Chavez testified against Ms. Bañuelos on Capitol Hill, her nomination survived, and she went on to serve for about two years. Senators believed that she did not know about the undocumented workers and that the raid had been instigated to embarrass the White House.

Source: New York Times December 11, 2018 00:33 UTC