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This box contains several folders on the immigration case of Bill Hokeng Hsieh, a library worker at Columbia University, and his wife Wang Yung Hsieh, an actress and writer. Ira Gollobin represented the Hsiehs when they were deported to the People's Republic of China in 1954, and this box contains a range of documentation for the case, including pleadings, correspondence, notes, and news clippings. Pearl Buck was a supporter of the Hsiehs, and the files also contain correspondence between her and Gollobin.

The box also contains materials related to House Un-American Committee hearings, Fifth Amendment issues, and civil rights. Material types include correspondence, news clippings, research, and notes. This includes general background information and files on related to individual cases in which Gollobin was involved. These files primarily date between the mid-1950s-1960s. This box also includes Ira Gollobin's autobigraphical pamphlet Winds of Change: An Immigration Lawyer's Perspective of Fifty Years.

The box also contains many files labeled "Immigration." These materials mostly date from the 1940s-1990s (the bulk being from the 1980s-1990s). These files contain clippings, correspondence, and publications on immigration. Represented organizations include American Friends Service Committee, various agencies of the United States Federal Government, and the American Council for Nationalities.

The majority of the files for this box are labelled "Immigration Workers" or "Miscellaneous." Content across both of these file types is roughly the same. Much of the material is research surrounding immigration and labor issues, including clippings, pamphlets, pleadings, and reports from advocacy groups and government agencies. Prominent themes include labor issues for undocumented workers, Haitian refugees, the dragnet raids on undocumented workers in the 1970s, the Rodino immigration bills of the 1970s, and positions of unions and other stakeholders on the ensuing legislative debate.

The activism of the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born is well represented, and documents include fliers, press releases, petitions, and correspondence. Other organizations include United Farm Workers, Committee Against Racism, and the American Council for Nationalities Service.

The majority of the files for this box are labelled "Miscellaneous," and these generally pertain to rights of undocumented immigrants. Document types include clippings, fliers, press releases, pleadings, and correspondence. Many documents were produced by the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born.