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I recently watched a group of protestors,
most of them young, denouncing President Donald

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Trump’s immigration policies.

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They were waving Mexican flags and shouting:
“¡Si, se puede!”—"Yes, we can!”

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This is now the rallying cry of the open-borders
left, but it wasn’t always.

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In fact, I wondered if a single person at
the protest knew where it came from.

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The slogan first became famous fifty years
ago, thanks to Cesar Chavez.

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He was the founder of the United Farm Workers
union.

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When Chavez said “Si, se puede,” he meant
something very different: “Yes, we can…

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seal the borders.”

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Cesar Chavez hated illegal immigration.

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He was Hispanic, obviously, and definitely
on the left, but he fought to keep illegal

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Mexican immigrants out of this country.

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He understood that peasants from Latin America
will always work for less than Americans will.

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That’s why employers prefer them.

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Chavez knew that.

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“As long as we have a poor country bordering
California,” he once explained,

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“it’s going to be very difficult to win strikes.”

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In 1969, Chavez led a march down the center
of California to protest the hiring of illegal

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immigrant produce pickers.

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Marching alongside him was Democratic Senator
Walter Mondale, and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy,

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the longtime aide to Martin Luther King.

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Ten years later, Chavez dispatched armed union
members into the desert to assault Mexican

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nationals who were trying to sneak across
the border.

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Chavez’s men beat immigrants with chains
and whips made of barbed wire.

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Illegal aliens who dared to work as scabs
had their houses fire-bombed

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and their cars burned.

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Chavez wasn’t embarrassed about any of this.

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He bragged about it.

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No matter.

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Chavez remains a progressive hero.

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President Obama declared his birthday a commemorative federal holiday.

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It’s an official day off in half a dozen
states.

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There’s a college named after him, and dozens
of public schools.

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Cesar Chavez’s life is a reminder of how
much the left has changed—and how quickly.

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Until recently, most Democrats agreed with
Chavez.

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They opposed unchecked immigration because
they knew it hurt American workers.

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And they were right.

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One study by a Harvard economist examined
the effects of the mass migration of Cuban

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refugees to this country in 1980—the so-called
Mariel boatlift.

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He found that American workers in Miami with
a high school education saw their wages fall

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by more than thirty percent after the refugees
arrived.

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If you believe in supply and demand, this
is not surprising.

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After the fall of Saigon in 1975, Democratic
Governor Jerry Brown opposed letting Vietnamese

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refugees into California on the grounds that
the state already had enough poor people.

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As he put it at the time, "There is something
a little strange about saying, 'Let's bring

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in 500,000 more people' when we can't take
care of the one million Californians out of work.”

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First term Senator Joe Biden of Delaware agreed;
he introduced federal legislation to curb

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the arrival of the Vietnamese.

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Two decades later, leading Democrats were
still wary of mass immigration, especially

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illegal immigration.

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As Bill Clinton put it in the 1995 State of
the Union address, “…Americans… are

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rightly disturbed by the large numbers of
illegal aliens entering our country.

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The jobs they hold might otherwise be held
by citizens or legal immigrants.

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The public services they use impose burdens
on our taxpayers.”

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No prominent Democrat would say anything like
that today without being denounced as a racist.

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Clinton got a standing ovation.

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As late as 2006, there were still liberals
who cared about the economic effects of immigration,

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legal or illegal.

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“Immigration reduces the wages of domestic
workers who compete with immigrants,”

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explained economist Paul Krugman in the New York Times.

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“…We’ll need to reduce the inflow of
low-skilled immigrants.

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Mainly, that means better controls on illegal
immigration.”

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That same year, Senator Hillary Clinton voted
for a fence on the Mexican border.

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So did Barack Obama and Chuck Schumer and
23 other Senate Democrats.

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Not anymore.

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Twenty years after Bill Clinton told Americans
they had the right to be upset about illegal

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immigration, his wife scolded the country
for enforcing border controls.

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So, what changed?

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Not the economics of it.

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The law of supply and demand remained in effect.

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It’s not a coincidence that as illegal immigration
surged, wages for American workers stagnated.

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What changed is that Democrats stopped caring
about those workers.

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About the middle class, really.

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Why?

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Here’s the answer, in four simple facts.

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One: According to a recent study from Yale,
there are at least 22 million illegal immigrants

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living in the United States.

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Two: Democrats plan to give all of them citizenship.

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Read the Democrats’ 2016 party platform.

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Three: Studies show the overwhelming majority
of first-time immigrant voters vote Democrat.

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Four: The biggest landslide in American presidential
history was only 17 million votes.

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The payoff for Democrats: permanent electoral
majority for the foreseeable future.

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In a word: power.

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That’s the point, no matter what they tell
you; American workers be damned.

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I’m Tucker Carlson.