Cesar Chavez Couldn’t Get the Feds to Enforce the Border, Either

“What the heck’s going on? It’s just — it’s a complete breakdown of the law. They’re not doing anything.”

This isn’t Donald Trump at a rally complaining about the Biden crowd’s maladministration of the border. It was Cesar Chavez’s assessment of immigration enforcement under an earlier Democratic administration, in a speech delivered 45 years ago at the National Press Club in Washington.

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“What the heck’s going on? It’s just — it’s a complete breakdown of the law. They’re not doing anything.”

This isn’t Donald Trump at a rally complaining about the Biden crowd’s maladministration of the border. It was Cesar Chavez’s assessment of immigration enforcement under an earlier Democratic administration, in a speech delivered 45 years ago at the National Press Club in Washington.