An INS advisory commission made up of political representatives from the US-Mexico border area, Justice Department officials and Mexican diplomats meets with authorities to discuss how to end corruption and abuse of authority by Border Patrol agents. The INS releases a report on its investigation into conditions at the privately-run Esmor detention facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where detainees rioted on June 18. The report found that the prison was run by poorly trained and abusive guards who preyed on the immigrant detainees with little or no control from their supervisors. The INS announces it will not renew its contract with Esmor to run the Elizabeth prison. Latino youth in the Lincoln Heights Eastlake neighborhood for three hours before police manage to arrest more than a hundred people.
Battles continue over the next two days.
Notimex reports that a coalition of human rights groups from all the US states that border Mexico protested in the middle of July at the National Guard post in Imperial Beach, showing photographs of soldiers arresting border-crossers. A month earlier, in a verdict that puzzled even the judge, a jury found police officer Michael Jackson guilty of violating Soltero's civil rights but refused to grant any economic compensation to the victim. A witness managed to capture on videotape the scene of Jackson beating the subdued and handcuffed Soltero on July 29, 1994. Jackson is African-American. Latino organizations in Los Angeles announce a series of actions to demand justice for two Latinos killed by police.