Cesar Chavez A Man of Yesterday…a Man for Today!

Posted by Tina

Today is Cesar Chavez Day. His legacy should be remembered truthfully and factually rather than as fantasy concocted by those who support progressive politics. To that end, let’s celebrate Chavez by discussing his stance on immigration as recounted in an article, “Make Cesar Chavez Great Again,” by Pedro Gonzales. Warning to those who wll actually read the entire article, Chavez was a bit like Trump in his use of the language:

Chavez orchestrated the Illegals Campaign, which the Los Angeles Times described as “a central piece of strategy which saw the UFW direct members to report the presence of undocumented immigrants in the fields and turn them in to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), the agency which preceded Customs and Border Protection (CBP).” Chavez instructed the campaign’s field coordinator to “distribute forms printed in triplicate to all union offices and directed staff members to document the presence of illegal immigrants in the fields and report them to the INS.”

In triplicate—Chavez was as thorough as he was hawkish.

Just in Fresno, California, Chavez’s campaign identified and reported 2,200 illegal immigrants to the INS in 1974 alone. In fact, Chavez even paid off Mexican border patrol agents to stop would-be illegal immigrants from entering the United States. A spade’s a spade. …
… Chavez’s rage against unfettered immigration didn’t wane. In fact, we can track its upward trajectory. In 1969, Chavez testified before Congress that even though UFW organizers had given INS officials “stacks and stacks of information” on illegal immigrants, the authorities failed to deport them. “This is why we are forced to boycott: We have had no enforcement by the Border Patrol,” Chavez said.

Later, following the implementation of the Illegals Program and frustrated with more immigration enforcement failures, Chavez testified before Congress again in 1979: “It is apparent that when the farmworkers strike and their strike is successful, the employers go to Mexico and have unlimited, unrestricted use of illegal alien strikebreakers to break the strike. And, for over 30 years, the Immigration and Naturalization Service has looked the other way and assisted in the strikebreaking.”

Progressives have canonized a laughably angelic version of Chavez, utterly divorced from his passionate opposition to unregulated immigration and illegal immigrants (and also without mention of the strange spiral into cultism that stained the later years of his life).

This article demonstrates just how far afield radical progressives have taken us on issues of importance for our survival and vitality…and how horribly they have destorted and altered history as they educate, and I use the term generously, young minds.

(Cue Libby for another “You’re racist!” rant.)

Bringing the spirit of Chavez into the present….

If you still don’t think the wall is important to build or that lawful immigration shouldn’t be a foundational principal consider the following (organized and orchestrated by whom?):

For five days now hundreds of Central Americans — children, women, and men, most of them from Honduras — have boldly crossed immigration checkpoints, military bases, and police in a desperate, sometimes chaotic march toward the United States. Despite their being in Mexico without authorization, no one has made any effort to stop them.

Organized by a group of volunteers called Pueblos Sin Fronteras, or People Without Borders, the caravan is intended to help migrants safely reach the United States, bypassing not only authorities who would seek to deport them, but gangs and cartels who are known to assault vulnerable migrants.

Organizers like Rodrigo Abeja hope that the sheer size of the crowd will give immigration authorities and criminals pause before trying to stop them.

Attempts to find out who is behind this organization and it’s efforts yielded very little other than the fact that it has a radical progressive stamp on it. I suspect George Soros, through his multitude of activist organizations, is behind it. The organization does have a Facebook page. I don’t do Facebook so maybe Peggy can help us out.

Could this be one of the reasons construction on the wall has begun? And why progressives (particularly in CA) are up in arms over the decision to include a legal status question on the census form?

It is time to make Cesar Chavez “Great Again,” by adopting his stance on illegal immigration, securing our borders, and enforcing our immigration laws.

Happy Cesar Chavez Day and God bless American.