Psst! Cesar Chavez Opposed Illegal Immigrants

Mickey Kaus Columnist
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Google should google it: Cesar Chavez’s legacy on illegal immigration may not be what Google thinks it is. Here’s a Ruben Navarrette column on the subject.  As a labor leader, Chavez realized that uncontrolled immigration undercut his workers’ bargaining position–as late as 1979 he inveighed against “illegal alien strikebreakers” before Congress.. Some of his tactics were even less than Gandhiesque … P.S.: Of course, he changed his position in later years “under pressure from Chicano yaktivists.”  That doesn’t mean his later position was right (or wrong). … See also. …

Mickey Kaus