Nancy Pelosi seems downright excited about praising Caesar Chavez on the anniversary of his birth. She also seems to be reaffirming her support of illegal immigration and shamnesty with her press release that celebrates the life and times of Caesar Chavez.
At one time the author of this blog was impressed by Chavez also. That was with the idealism of youth and taking things at face value. It appeared to me then that this was a man who saw some people being treated unfairly and made it his life’s work to correct that injustice. Long ago I learned that upon further review, just like instant replay in football, situations are not always as they seem (at first).
Pelosi sings the praise of Chavez and the liberal mantra to help the little guy and right the wrongs of society. It’s lefty-speak for simply ripping people off a different way. Just like Chavez was instrumental in shamnesty in his own time, when undocumented workers threatened his own ambitions he fought to have it stopped.
It has nothing to do with correcting injustice. It has to do with fooling people into believing they are being helped when it is just another scam artist wanting their piece of the action.
Stanford Matthews
MoreWhat.com
03/31/2009
Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today in honor of the 82nd anniversary of Cesar Chavez’ birthday on March 31st:
“Cesar Chavez taught us that dignity and sacrifice can inspire a people and bring about change. He famously believed that ‘to suffer for someone in greater need was human.’ It is this belief, along with his struggle on behalf of America’s farm workers, that makes Cesar Chavez an American hero.
“Cesar Chavez devoted his life to improving the working and living conditions of America’s farm workers. His efforts for fair wages, pension benefits, and medical coverage have improved the lives of thousands of families.
“In his honor, last year Congress passed the Cesar Estrada Chavez Study Act, authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the sites associated with the life of Cesar Chavez and the farm labor movement. To celebrate his commitment to our nation’s farm workers, we expanded the Migrant and Seasonal Head Start programs, allowing the sons and daughters of our farmers to get an early start on their education.
“Today, on Cesar Chavez’ birthday, we renew our commitment to his fight for equal rights and fair working conditions. Our efforts in Congress to bring justice and opportunity to all are the continuation of his work, and his legacy is remembered by millions.”
Chavez, Organized Labor and Shamnesty
The UFWA during Chávez’s tenure was committed to restricting immigration. César Chávez and Dolores Huerta fought the Bracero Program that existed from 1942 to 1964. Their opposition stemmed from their belief that the program undermined U.S. workers and exploited the migrant workers. Their efforts contributed to Congress ending the Bracero Program in 1964. In 1973, the UFW was one of the first labor unions to oppose proposed employer sanctions that would have prohibited hiring undocumented immigrants. Later during the 1980s, while Chávez was still working alongside UFW president, Dolores Huerta, the cofounder of the UFW, was key in getting the amnesty provisions into the 1986 federal immigration act.
On a few occasions, concerns that undocumented 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 undocumented immigrants as strikebreakers. Joining him on the march were both Reverend Ralph Abernathy and U.S. Senator Walter Mondale.[9] In its early years, Chávez and the UFW went so far as to report undocumented immigrants who served as strikebreaking replacement workers, as well as those who refused to unionize, to the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
The Bracero Program
Even though the United States had made use of migrant Mexican labor in its agricultural sector since the early 1900s, such labor tended to be both migratory and seasonal with many workers returning back to Mexico in the winter. The situation changed with the involvement of the United States in WWII that created a massive labor shortage in all sectors of the economy with the withdrawal of much of the nations active labor force into the various armed services. The extreme labor shortage forced a change in immigration policy for the United States that resulted in development of the Bracero Program in conjunction with Mexico. The Bracero Program was a guest worker program that ran between the years of 1942 and 1964. Over the twenty-two year period, The Mexican Farm Labor Program, informally known as the Bracero Program, sponsored some 4.5 million border crossings of guest workers from Mexico (some among these representing repeat visits by returned braceros).
Mexico and WWII
Five items are listed at Wiki about Mexico’s contribution to WWII. The most significant being an expeditionary air force squadron named Escuadron 201 with limited duty during the closing year of the war.
Obama Census Plan: No Illegal Alien Left Behind (Michelle Malkin)
Taking a stand against the open-borders agenda (Michelle Malkin)
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