Cesar Chavez OPPOSED ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION - It drives down wages,
keeps the poor (legal immigrants) in poverty and keeps farms from
modernizing.
Cesar Chavez, Minuteman The UFW leader was no friend to illegal
immigration =97
until he became an ethnic figurehead
By Steve Sailer, Copyright =A9 2006 The American Conservative
Edited for length, read entire article here:
http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2=
006_02_27/article.html
=2E.... Chavez=92s essential problem was straight out of Econ 101, the
law of supply and demand. He needed to limit the supply of labor in
order to drive up wages. Chavez, during his effectual years, was a
ferocious opponent of illegal immigration.
His success stemmed from the long-term decline in the farm labor
supply. According to agricultural economist Philip L. Martin of the
University of California, Davis, migrant farm workers in the U.S.
numbered 2 million in the 1920s. Eisenhower cracked down on Mexican
illegal immigrants, ****pping one million home in 1954 alone. The
famous 1960 "Harvest of Shame" do***entary by CBS newsman Edward R.
Murrow inspired liberal Democrats in Congress to abolish the bracero
guest-worker program in 1964. The supply of migrant workers dropped to
about 200,000, most of them American citizens, making unionization and
better contracts feasible =97 as long as what Marx called "the reserve
army of the unemployed" could be bottled up south of the border. The
next year, Chavez began his storied organizing campaign.
Growers fought back by busing the reserve army up from Mexico. In
1979, Chavez bitterly testified to Congress:
=85 when the farm workers 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. I do not remember one single instance
in 30 years where the Immigration service has removed strikebreakers.
=85 The employers use professional smugglers to recruit and trans****t
human contraband across the Mexican border for the specific act of
strikebreaking=85
--The more things change....
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