CESAR CHAVEZ: THE TRUTH

ORF says: The pro-illegal immigrant agenda falsely claims Cesar Chavez as 1)born in Mexico & 2) an early advocate for illegal immigrant 'rights'. The truth is Chavez was born in Yuma, AZ. He served in the U.S. Navy. Chavez and his followers chased illegals from Mexico out of the fields and grape vineyards with baseball bats. Chavez was not an advocate for illegal immigrants. In the late 60's Chavez had advocated for illegals. He saw the displacement of American laborers by the cheaper illegal laborers and switched his views. He was an American labor organizer who advocated for better working conditions and wages for AMERICAN LABORERS and not illegal laborers from foreign countries.

From Wikipedia...the other Cesar Chavez sites I read either omit his anti-illegal stance or falsley (lie) portray him as pro-illegal/pro-Mexican.

Immigration

The UFW during Chávez's tenure was committed to restricting immigration. César Chávez and Dolores Huerta fought a federal law that prohibited hiring illegal immigrants in 1973. Later during the 1980s, while Chávez was still the UFW president, Dolores Huerta, the cofounder of the UFW, was key in getting the amnesty provisions into the 1986 federal immigration act. [2].

On a few occasions, concerns that illegal migrant labor would undermine UFW strike campaigns led to a number of controversial events, which the UFW describes as anti-strikebreaking events, but which have also been interpreted as being anti-immigrant. In 1969, Chávez and members of the UFW marched through the Imperial and Coachella Valleys to the border of Mexico to protest growers' use of illegal immigrants as strikebreakers. Joining him on the march were both Reverend Ralph Abernathy and U.S. Senator Walter Mondale.[3] In its early years, Chávez and the UFW went so far as to report illegal aliens who served as strikebreaking replacement workers, as well as those who refused to unionize, to the Immigration and Naturalization Service.[4][5][6][7][8]

In 1973, the United Farm Workers set up a "wet line" along the United States-Mexico border to prevent Mexican immigrants from entering the United States illegally and potentially undermining the UFW's unionization efforts.[9] During one such event in which Chávez was not involved, some UFW members, under the guidance of Chávez's cousin Manuel, physically attacked the strikebreakers, after attempts to peacefully persuade the illegal aliens not to cross the border failed

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