United Farm Workers President Arturo Rodriguez and local leaders will participate in a march today for immigration reform and to honor the legacy of Cesar Chavez.
Cesar Chavez (Wikimedia)
The march is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. at the Coachella Plaza Shopping Center, 49647 Highway 86. Assemblyman V. Manuel Perez, D-Coachella, Coachella Mayor Eduardo Garcia and other council members are expected to attend, according to United Farm Workers.
Thousands of people are expected to participate in marches in California and Washington this weekend. Chavez, founder of the United Farm Workers of America, died 20 years ago and his birthday on March 31 is a holiday in California.
The marches are part of United Farm Workers’ national campaign “Con la Union de Campesinos Tendremos Papeles,” or “With the United Farm Workers We Will Have Papers.”
Similar events and marches are planned in other California cities, Oregon, Washington and Washington, D.C. in the next few months.
They are part of a “continuing effort to urge lawmakers to pass a new immigration process that would allow the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. to legalize their status,” according to a UFW statement.
Founded in 1962 by Chavez, the United Farm Workers of America is the country’s largest farm workers union, according to its website.
For more information, go to www.ufw.org or call (661) 823-6151.
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Cesar Chavez opposed illegal aliens competing with his union of farm workers, composed of US Citizens who were assimilated immigrants.
There is absolutely no justification to keep importing poverty, when we have our own people patiently seeking a job. The more migrants and immigrants who arrive here legally or illegally, the more financial woes tax payers will have to contend with in generations to come? It remains completely senseless, when millions of people are out of work and must look to government and charities for enough food stamps, or other welfare entitlements to get through a month. I am afraid that our politicians have fallen into the campaign trap, because they rely on special interests to build their chance of reelection. Why don’t we have taxpayer funded elections, without corruption setting the standard in Washington? While we have special interest groups, there will never be a true government for the people? Now I am not saying every political personage is abusing the system, but many are and thats the major dilemma on both sides of the aisle. In this firebrand of illegal immigration, much of the previous and future troubles could have been prevented, if entry into America was classed as a felony. But the real oddity, its not and this was probably the pressure from the corporate world, which wouldn’t if this law had been passed get their fair share of cheap labor.
You would think that the big unions as the AFL-CIO and all those pressing for immigration reform would be more dominant in fighting against such issues. But now, how can this be, when 23 million or more Americans cannot locate a job to feed their families? Why doesn’t the rank and file rise up against this indignities for a country deep in debt and could go under, during the present rule of President Obama. Then we have the gang of eight flirting with the lives of honest citizens and legal immigrants, with the 2 favorites in the GOP, who have now evolved into a pro-illegal alien crowd pleaser for the radical majority organizations, removing most restrictions from stopping more relentless foreign nationals from crossing our border, or just slipping on a airliner and entering as a simulated visitor, tourist or scholar. Daily we have this travesty as its not just people escaping poor countries, but years of pregnant females bringing an unseen fetus through immigration gates, readily to claim citizenship for the child once born? Probably other than Family Chain Migration, birthright citizenship forced upon taxpayers is the most expensive payout that cannot even be imagined. The estimate for States alone is in the 100 billion dollar mark. This law is a breach of any commonsense for any prudent person, especially the lawmakers who should enact legislation to repeal this law. IT JUST NEEDS THE FULL CRESCENDO OF AMERICAN INCENSED VOICES TO DEMAND THIS CHANGE, OTHERWISE THIS POLICY WILL REMAIN AND OUTRAGEOUSLY KEEP COSTING ANNUALLY OVER HUNDRED BILLIONS DOLLARS?
THE GANG OF EIGHT WILL SURELY BE ENTIRELY BLAMED FOR ANOTHER AMNESTY AND WILL CERTAINLY BE REMEMBERED WITH BITTER COLD FRUSTRATION, WHEN THE TIME FOR REELECTION COMES AROUND? THIS WILL ESPECIALLY BE RELEVANT IF THIS NEW COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM ERUPTS INTO ANOTHER 1986 FRAUD. HOWEVER, POLITICIANS DON’T CARE, BECAUSE WHEN THEY RETIRE THEY HAVE A VERY LUCRATIVE JOB WAITING FOR THEM AS LOBBISTS, FOR THE SAME ENTITIES THEY WERE AWARDED FAVORS FOR?
Before any exceptions of allowing illegal aliens to stay, the border fence must be built to the requirements of the 2006 Secure Fence plan. That means double or triple fencing, with fast access points for the movement on the Border patrol vehicles in the internal “No man’s land”. Unless we control our borders and have maximum enforcement in tracking visa overstays and even maritime checks. We must also demand mandatory E-Verify provision, accompanied by IMAGE program that authenticates legal workers and red flags foreign nationals. Absolutely before any mass immigration package, most definite is the requirement of a national ID card, which should be in the possession of every American and permanent resident and other with legal status.
As Calif. Drowns in Debt, Group Advocates For Free Healthcare for Illegal’s.
By Stephen Frank on 03/21/2013 who writes for California News and views.
California is in a Depression. We have a current debt/deficit of $90 billion—not even close to a balanced budget. Even the Democrat State Controller John Chiang admits the State has a $16.2 billion cash deficit, and that is only part of what we owe.
Now, the California Endowment, a leftist think tank, wants to give free health care to illegal aliens. That, of course, will become a magnet for more illegal aliens to sneak into our country and State. While our young and elderly are waiting on long lines, as the doctor shortage grows each day, along with our deficit, these folks prefer you pay for health care for criminals from foreign nations than be able to receive health care for yourself and your family.
This is part of a propaganda video sent out by the group—could make you cry, ““I’m undocumented, but I dream that one day we will all be treated as one people, because we are one people,” the young people tell viewers. “Now, our country has spoken saying that everyone should have affordable healthcare.”
“I dream that one day, everyone will include me,” they say.
This new burden would drive the state further into bankruptcy. California is already rated as one of the worst run states in the nation.”
With inept governor as Jerry Brown holding the State purse strings, when a state like California is falling to the risk of millions more illegal aliens spilling across either national border, under the potential of a significant blanket immigration reform bill shortly. Why would they subvert money from the diluted treasury, when seniors and other destitute Americans are reeling from the continuous cuts to their health care, including dental treatment? This is not just a possibility in California, but even upon the strained resources of Arizona, plus the rest of the 50 states. It’s absolutely inevitable that the Imperial potentate Obama and his executive disciples are not going to keep their word, but unleash on the unsuspecting public, health care for everybody no matter the financial predicament it leads too?
The lawmakers in Washington, should get it in their brains that 11 to 25 million or more illegal aliens should not obtain any Path to Citizenship or anything else, specifically when hard working taxpayers are their benefactor. Just the dispensation of this many people will be an added expense to the near 17 Trillion dollars we owe foreign nations such as China and Arab investors. How can we keep on adding more people to the welfare rolls, when millions of citizens and permanent residents are waiting patiently at food banks in line with foreign nationals for food stamps? We cannot give any ground of any kind is to exchange blows, by confronting politician in any method possible, to even calling them through the Central Washington at (202) 224-312. . LEARN THE AUTHENTICITY OF OUR SINGLE FENCE AT THE BORDER AND EXAMINE THE VEILED NEWS REPORTS AT AMERICANPATROL. ALSO SIGN THE PETITION AT THE NUMBERSUSA site to show your contempt. (Hundreds of thousands of infuriated citizens and lawful residents, have signed the petition already) Confront your Representative with post cards, challenging that they stop the current path to overpopulation, balkanization and taxing Americans to support foreigners. Inundate Facebook and Twitter with your attitude about the coming tempest, as the other side will do also. Make contact with your neighboring press and TV channels, because the end is near for rational thinking and the next strike on the smarting taxpayer. Nonetheless the best path is in getting results is a direct phone call to your person in Congress through the screening- aide and leave your clash against illegal immigration, insisting on the real wall, e-verify, revoking illegal alien children gaining citizenship and of major value for security a nation ID card for every citizen and legal resident.
Mandating, and ENFORCING, E-Verify for all jobs, and any entitlement, with harsh prosecutions of any offending employer, as well as the offending illegal immigrants, would do more to stop illegal immigration, than any futile attempt to secure the border, and also do it much faster, and at far less expense. At the same time, E-Verify would also provide jobs for millions of Americans
Any proposed reform that does not include mandatory jail terms for employers of illegal aliens will be a complete failure just as the ’86 Amnesty was a failure.
Every day that an illegal alien is allowed to work is another day that taxpayers are forced to support a law abiding family that was forced into unemployment and poverty when the illegals under bid the legal workers for jobs.
The penalty for employers of illegal workers should be mandatory $15,000 fine per illegal worker and mandatory 2 years in jail without parole per illegal worker. That would put an immediate end to the problem.
That is ALL the reform we need.
This group is doing this in “his name” and its ridiculous. NO country in the world is forced by 11 million illegals to make them legal EXCEPT for the USA of AMERICA right?
Just like REAGAN did and gave amnesty to how many? These are not the REAL illegals who works the fields for heavensake and go out and ask yourself if you see them working if they have papers or not.
THEY DO or they would not be able to work. These legal workers want their mothers, fathers, cousins, grandparents, to be able to get amnesty and stay in America. All illegals come here illegal and then work illegally in drug houses making it, packing it up, spreading it across the USA, human trafric’ing, prostitution, burglaries, murders and running houses on the train for more illegals and drugs. WHY IN THE NAME of GOD would we want to make these people legal?
Like our Laws say, they need to be shipped OUT, not protesting, or whatever kind of testing they are doing. Seriously does anyone even listen to this and want them to be able to stay and continue doing what they do?
IF an illegal wants to become a Citizen it was set up years ago how to do it. They need to go about it the right way, start out legal with legal filings and then eventually come over here to work, and be proud of what they have been able to achieve in America, be proud of themselves and the country that has accepted them.
But again its all a knee jerk reaction. OMG illegls are protesting again, and its not lets ship them out, its give them college, give them a drivers license, give them aid and anything else they want.
Like all the companies who have moved a good portion or their entire business out of the USA. Either they bring it all back, get USA workers rehired, we will lower all taxes accross the board on them. Very simple, if they do NOT return their business’s or parts of it we will NO LONGER BUY THAT PRODUCT. End of discussion if they want to play screw the world
This just angers me because I’m from El Paso tx and if you been there or lived there you feel like you are in Mexico these people drive like crap and if they crash into you it’s your fault! And this is America last time I checked and all they speak is Spanish they refuse to speak English but yet They wanna live here?? It’s B.S and they get free housing free food free medical and now there lowing the price of college for them?!?? How about worry about us Americans who struggle to pay for college who have to pay for their own food and their own medical bills and their own homes but nope screw us lets help those cry baby border crossers who are just gonna be sueing everyone because there so damn she happy also so ridiculous what is this world coming to!!!