Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Republic of the Rio Grande Capitol, in Laredo, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, floor plans, and photographs.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Texas AFL-CLO as well as 189 citizens of Texas border towns, filing suit against the U.S. Attorney General and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, asking that Mexican workers not be allowed to commute for jobs in the U.S., claiming that unemployment in border towns is a direct result of job competition from foreign laborers.