Biden Claims the Mantle of Cesar Chavez, While Ignoring the Labor Leader’s Opposition to Illegal Immigration
The president, in an Oval Office interview with Univision, touts the United Farm Workers’ leader and casts himself as sympathetic to illegal migrants. A closer look at the record, however, shows Chavez backing the law-and-order approach of President Trump.
United Farm Workers President Cesar Chavez talks to striking Salinas Valley farmworkers during a large rally in Salinas, California, on March 7, 1979. AP/Sakuma
