1990 - JIM HUNTER (Canadian Union Leader, President of the International Transport Workers Federation)


Jim Hunter was on his way to a meeting in Florida when U.S. immigration officials stopped him at the airport. His name was on a "Lookout List," though he had entered the U.S. several months earlier for a meeting in Washington, DC. An INS agent indicated Hunter was inadmissible based on his membership in the National Federation of Labor Youth League in his twenties. Hunter's involvement with the group was more recreational than political. He said, "The country of the free and the brave wouldn't let someone into their country who played ball on a baseball team 35 years ago with some communists."