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Why is Cesar Chavez celebrated?

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Tony Fernandez posted on Mon, Mar 29 2010 8:32 PM

All I can see from Wikipedia is that he wanted immigration to be restricted in order to support his unions bloated wages. Is there anything that he did that's good?

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tonyfernandez:

All I can see from Wikipedia is that he wanted immigration to be restricted in order to support his unions bloated wages. Is there anything that he did that's good?

He used the government to coerce farm owners into giving farm workers higher wages. I mean...

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