Dems venerate Cesar Chavez.... would he survive 'woke'
Posted on: April 1, 2021 at 12:29:54 CT
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He was an advocate for strong border security because he felt that undocumented immigrants were breaking his strikes. He went to great lengths to make sure immigrants couldn’t get into the country by creating what the UFW called “wet lines.”
The “wet lines” initiative consisted of UFW members who would stop people from crossing the border between Yuma, Arizona and San Luis, Mexico. Led by Chávez’s cousin Manuel, UFW members would even brutally beat border crossers and rob them of their possessions, according to Marian Pawel, author of “The Crusades of Cesar Chávez.”
Chávez also started the “Illegals Campaign,” which was created to direct UFW members to report the presence of undocumented field workers to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, according to Latin Times.
In addition to his actions against immigrants, Chávez went on record to say that those breaking his strikes were “wetbacks” and “illegals.”