The State - News from July 24, 1988

A U.S. citizen who was deported from a San Joaquin Valley lettuce-growing area to Mexicali two years ago has received $12,000 and a formal apology from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. “We were wrong,” a Border Patrol official said. Agents picked up Gonzalo Serrano in a southern Fresno County field and took him in for questioning in July, 1986, even though he had showed agents a copy of his birth certificate. Agents have since said they thought the certificate belonged to someone else. Attorney Juan Arambula claimed that the agents interrogated, insulted and yelled at his client for hours.