On Immigration, the Left Must Learn from Cesar Chavez
Mark Krikorian
March 31, 2025
Julie Chavez Rodriguez was the manager of last year’s reelection campaign for the most anti-borders and racially divisive administration in American history. Her grandfather must have been turning in his grave. March 31 would have been the 98th birthday of that grandfather, the late Cesar Chavez, co-founder of the United Farm Workers union. His birthday is a holiday in some states, as Chavez has been turned into a secular saint of the open-borders left and an icon for Hispanic identitarians.
Except that he was a border hawk and an anti-identitarian. To drive that point home, I and others have been campaigning for some time to have March 31 designated National Border Control Day.
As the Democratic party grapples with the implications of defeat and searches for a way forward, it would do well to learn from Chavez.
I don’t mean to imply that Chavez was a man of the right. He was certainly culturally conservative by today’s standards, but he worked with Saul Alinsky, then-Sen. Walter Mondale, and Martin Luther King Jr.’s successor Ralph Abernathy while battling Republican business interests.
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