The State - News from Feb. 14, 1989
A coalition of Hispanic groups meeting in Santa Ana urged President Bush to replace Harold Ezell, western regional commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and disavowed efforts by a local Hispanic group to honor the controversial INS official. State and regional members of the League of United Latin American Citizens, a national Hispanic rights group, announced they would demonstrate outside a reception honoring Ezell planned in Costa Mesa by LULAC’s Bellflower chapter. Angry LULAC officials urged the group’s executive committee to expel the Bellflower chapter and its head, Jose Pacheco, from the national organization for sponsoring the reception, claiming the ceremony could give Bush a misleading impression that local Hispanic groups support Ezell.
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