The Cesar Chavez you may not know...

You may not know that Cesar Chavez hated illegal immigration. You may not know that Chavez believed that illegal immigration kept American Farmworkers either with low wages or unemployed. Chavez realized that the Braceros program was misused by Growers to maintain profits at the expense of American citizens. The program was born in 1918 to hire Mexicans to help in railroad development During WWI. However it was reinstituted in the Emergency Labor Act in 1942 which intended to allow Mexican workers to replace the effort of Americans who went to world in WWII. This was part of Mexico's commitment to the Allies in WWII. Afterwards, the "Braceros" were used as a cheap labor alternative to Americans who were farmworkers after the War and illegally used as strikebreakers. This was a violation of the Braceros agreement. Here are some excerpts of statements Chavez has made and/or activities of his:

" …when the farm workers strike and their strike is successful, the employers go to Mexico and have unlimited, unrestricted use of illegal alien strikebreakers to break the strike. And, for over 30 years, the Immigration and Naturalization Service has looked the other way and assisted in the strikebreaking. I do not remember one single instance in 30 years where the Immigration service has removed strikebreakers. … The employers use professional smugglers to recruit and transport human contraband across the Mexican border for the specific act of strikebreaking… " (source: Hearings Before the Committee on Labor Human Resources Hearings held in Salinas, Calif., Apr. 26, 27, and Washington, D.C., May 24, 1979)

In abolishing the bracero program,12 Congress has but scotched the snake, not killed it. The program lives on in the annual parade of thousands of illegals and green carders13across the United States-Mexico border to work in our fields. To achieve law and order in any phase of human activity, legislators must apply heed to other laws not made by man, one of which is the economic law of supply and demand. We are asking Congress to pay heed to this law in the light of some hard facts about farm labor supply along our southern border. Otherwise, extension of NLRA coverage to farm workers in that part of the country will not produce much law and order. (source: Testimony before the Subcommittee of Labor of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, April 16, 1969)

The UFW leader was no friend to illegal immigration—until he became an ethnic figurehead.

During his prime, Chavez, a third-generation American citizen from Yuma, Arizona and Navy veteran, was an American labor leader fighting against the importation of strikebreakers from Mexico...Chavez and the United Farm Workers Union he headed routinely reported, to the INS, for deportation, suspected illegal immigrants who served as strikebreakers or refused to unionize.” Like today’s Minutemen, UFW staffers under the command of Chavez’s brother Manuel patrolled the Arizona-Mexico border to keep out illegal aliens. Unlike the well-behaved Minutemen, however, Chavez’s boys sometimes beat up intruders.

Cesar Chavez Timeline
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 aliens as temporary replacement workers during a strike. Joining him on the march were both Reverend Ralph Abernathy and U.S. Senator Walter Mondale. (note: this is from the official Senator Boxer Website. She changed the actual used by Cesar Chavez "illegal Aliens" to undocumented workers.)

Chavez has fought to have the government enforce the law.
We seek the support of all political groups and protection of the government, which is also our government, in our struggle. For too many years we have been treated like the lowest of the low. Our wages and working conditions have been determined from above, because irresponsible legislators who could have helped us, have supported the rancher’s argument that the plight of the Farm Worker was a “special case.” (source: Chavez proclamation during the Delano grape strike in 1966)

The Minuteman Project was organized by Cesar Chavez and his Cousin (not Brother) Manuel Chavez.
And in 1973, in one of the most disgraceful chapters in UFW history, the union set up a "wet line" to prevent Mexican immigrants from entering the United States. Under the guidance of Chávez 's cousin, Manuel, UFW members tried at first to convince the immigrants not to cross. When that didn't work, they physically attacked the immigrants and left some bloody in the process. It happened in the same place that the Minutemen are now planning to gather: the Arizona-Mexico border.

So you see, just as the issues of slavery and segregation, farmworkers rights have purposefully confused in history so that no one realizes that the Democrat Party is consistently on the wrong side of the issues most important voters. That is THE ONLY WAY they can be elected! We republicans must continue to make this information available to as many people as possible.

CNN Debate similar to FEMA Press Conference

CNN has done numerous stories and editorials slamming the Bush Administration's FEMA's fake news conference and rightly so. However in it most recent Democrat debate, CNN did some staging of its own. Doug Ross @ Journal reports that all of the questioners were Democrat activists with CNN approved questions! (please, click the link to this article to read the details and then come back to this article).

CNN even went through the trouble of "white washing" it own transcript in order to continue their contribution to the Hillary cover-up. (click that link to this article to read the details and then come back to this article).

This is a Damn shame that it CNN's behavior does not rise to the level of the FEMA Press Conference debacle!

Getting Past Reagan

The Republican Party is in need of an image makeover. We bask in the nostalgia of President Reagan and before him President Lincoln. Both have been great for our Party. However, there is currently no semblance of them today in the Republican Party leadership by either personality or commitment to Conservatism.

Gone are the days of mystique and endearment of a Republican Presidential candidate who extolled the virtues of Conservatism while eschewing any manner of Left-Wing Liberalism. Today's methods of communication reveal the flaws of today's Republican - right on this or moderate on that. Gone are the days of the Pedigree (i.e. the Ivy Leager, the person married only once, and having the right career connections). Bonvoyage to the Republican with even a consistent academic history. Say fairwell to the Republican that will have a familiar employment history. The only semblance of Reagan and Lincoln that today's Republican will have will be that same commitment to Conservatism that is the hallmark of this Grand ole Party.

Where do we conservatives cut spending at the state level? How should a state handle illegal immigrants if Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) refuses to do its job? What is college affordability? What should the retail price of gasoline be? These questions have no consensus among conservatives, but there must be someone who can start agreeing on something.

Getting past Reagan means that there must be a continual goal to reduce individual domestic dependance on local, state, and national government other than communal health and safety. Post Reagan policy must inspire people to be confident that they can be successful without government assistance. This means that our chosen leaders must be constantly advised that their leadership role is to push an agenda that will achieve such aims - the Republican Party Platform. When we get past Reagan, families will be self sustaining academically, medically, and for their livelihood. Immigrants are in the U.S. legally. There would be consensus that healthcare is affordable. There would be consensus that education is affordable. The dispute of man made global warming would resolved.

Former President Reagan brought a steadfastness that was unique in American Politics. He was able to communicate Conservatism so effectively that it was even attractive to Democrats. Today's Republican must be a missionary of the same profile of Conservatism that Reagan was (of course revised and extended to meet today's challenges), but without the same imagery. Today's Republican must understand that Conservatism must be in the highways and the hedges lifting people from of poverty and government dependance as we rely on our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. There should be no place that the gates of Left-Wing Liberalism are prevailing.