Southern Arizona’s legendary human rights champion rates the Biden administration’s first year at the border and suggests the time has come for a “quiet revolution.”
Nice discussion. The reality of the border and of border enforcement would be so different if the public and if national decision makers had the historical knowledge that Isabel Garcia points to. To understand migration into the U. S.’s southern border, even to begin to speak about this migration one must be knowledgeable about the political, economic, and labor relations that the American government promoted/enforced and continues to promote/enforce on the rest of the Americas.
Thanks, Guillermo, for your comment and point. I'm regularly baffled at how reductive and ahistorical the national conversations around the border are.. and how U.S. foreign policy is rarely if ever mentioned.
For MORE than two decades, Isabel Garcia was a "Pied Piper" who "aided and abetted, enticed and invited, and otherwise invited impoverished Mexicans to illegally cross the border for economic and political exploitation."
She is NO "Humanitarian!"
She is what Lenin called a "Useful Idiot", who helped Arizona business to achieve the endless supply of "cheap and exploitable" labor the state was built on. The scope and depth of that exploitation, is set forth in "Mexican Workers and the Making of Arizona", written by Arizona professors Gloria H. Cuádraz, Luis F. B. Plascencia.
I will further explore Garcia's efforts, it in "Ground Zero: How Arizona Created the Crisis on the Border."
Roy, we appreciate your subscription but will not accept slander nor any ad hominem attacks on our page. We are definitely up for discussion, including tough ones, but they have to made in good faith. thanks.
Todd Miller. My comments re Garcia are neither "slander," or ad hominem attacks. They are based on a long series of facts which I will reveal in "Ground Zero: How Arizona Created the Crisis on the Border." From 2000 to 2016 Garcia and her followers waved Mexican flags and shouted "Viva la Raza! Death to the Gringos," in support of illegal entry and a "Raza revolution." Garcia ignored the history of labor relations and the writings of Cesar Chavez, one of America's preeminent labor leaders, who was against identity politics and bitterly OPPOSED Arizona's use of illegal labor, once calling them "wetbacks" because they eroded the power of his Farm Workers Union to strike.
Roy, If you’re going to misquote Lenin, you should probably look at what he actually said about immigrants, labor and capitalists:
“In our struggle for true internationalism & against ‘jingo-socialism’ we always quote in our press the example of the opportunist leaders of the S.P. in America, who are in favor of restrictions of the immigration of Chinese and Japanese workers (especially after the Congress of Stuttgart, 1907, & against the decisions of Stuttgart). We think that one can not be internationalist & be at the same time in favor of such restrictions. And we assert that Socialists in America, especially English Socialists, belonging to the ruling, and oppressing nation, who are not against any restrictions of immigration, against the possession of colonies (Hawaii) and for the entire freedom of colonies, that such Socialists are in reality jingoes.”
Paul Houston: I should have said the term "Useful Idiot" has been attributed to Lenin. What's REALLY important is what Cuadraz and Plascencia had to say about Arizona's long term RECRUITMENT of impoverished Mexicans who have always been Arizona's preferred source of labor...as long as they worked twice as hard, accepted far less pay and kept their mouths shut about their horrendous working conditions worse than slavery. (Their illegal status made them "deport-able".) Cesar Chavez railed against the use of Mexican illegal labor which denied Mexican American farm workers their "right to work," and even went to jail for protesting against Arizona's use of illegals. Isabel Garcia supported identity politics in direct opposition to Martin Luther King and Cesar Chavez, waved the Mexican Flag, and shouted "Viva La Raza" and "Kill the Gringo," and thus supported the notion that America was a welcoming place for illegal entrants.
Sue Chambers: Why should legal resident Hispanics, Mexicans who are here with a green card, and American Hispanic citizens have to compete for jobs with illegal entrants, whom Arizona employers prefer, because they are willing to work twice as hard for half as much pay? Would YOU be willing to work for less money?
Paul Houston: Do you REALLY believe that? Why did Cesar Chavez oppose the use of illegal labor? The Grapes of Wrath reveals the evil that excess labor creates. Cesar Chavez knew that an unlimited supply benefits the employer and lowers wages for the working man.
Nice discussion. The reality of the border and of border enforcement would be so different if the public and if national decision makers had the historical knowledge that Isabel Garcia points to. To understand migration into the U. S.’s southern border, even to begin to speak about this migration one must be knowledgeable about the political, economic, and labor relations that the American government promoted/enforced and continues to promote/enforce on the rest of the Americas.
Guillermo: Agreed. Read "Mexican Workers and the Making of Arizona" by Plascencia and Cuadraz.
Thanks, Guillermo, for your comment and point. I'm regularly baffled at how reductive and ahistorical the national conversations around the border are.. and how U.S. foreign policy is rarely if ever mentioned.
For MORE than two decades, Isabel Garcia was a "Pied Piper" who "aided and abetted, enticed and invited, and otherwise invited impoverished Mexicans to illegally cross the border for economic and political exploitation."
She is NO "Humanitarian!"
She is what Lenin called a "Useful Idiot", who helped Arizona business to achieve the endless supply of "cheap and exploitable" labor the state was built on. The scope and depth of that exploitation, is set forth in "Mexican Workers and the Making of Arizona", written by Arizona professors Gloria H. Cuádraz, Luis F. B. Plascencia.
I will further explore Garcia's efforts, it in "Ground Zero: How Arizona Created the Crisis on the Border."
Roy, we appreciate your subscription but will not accept slander nor any ad hominem attacks on our page. We are definitely up for discussion, including tough ones, but they have to made in good faith. thanks.
Todd Miller. My comments re Garcia are neither "slander," or ad hominem attacks. They are based on a long series of facts which I will reveal in "Ground Zero: How Arizona Created the Crisis on the Border." From 2000 to 2016 Garcia and her followers waved Mexican flags and shouted "Viva la Raza! Death to the Gringos," in support of illegal entry and a "Raza revolution." Garcia ignored the history of labor relations and the writings of Cesar Chavez, one of America's preeminent labor leaders, who was against identity politics and bitterly OPPOSED Arizona's use of illegal labor, once calling them "wetbacks" because they eroded the power of his Farm Workers Union to strike.
Roy, If you’re going to misquote Lenin, you should probably look at what he actually said about immigrants, labor and capitalists:
“In our struggle for true internationalism & against ‘jingo-socialism’ we always quote in our press the example of the opportunist leaders of the S.P. in America, who are in favor of restrictions of the immigration of Chinese and Japanese workers (especially after the Congress of Stuttgart, 1907, & against the decisions of Stuttgart). We think that one can not be internationalist & be at the same time in favor of such restrictions. And we assert that Socialists in America, especially English Socialists, belonging to the ruling, and oppressing nation, who are not against any restrictions of immigration, against the possession of colonies (Hawaii) and for the entire freedom of colonies, that such Socialists are in reality jingoes.”
thanks for the clarification, Paul.
Paul Houston: I should have said the term "Useful Idiot" has been attributed to Lenin. What's REALLY important is what Cuadraz and Plascencia had to say about Arizona's long term RECRUITMENT of impoverished Mexicans who have always been Arizona's preferred source of labor...as long as they worked twice as hard, accepted far less pay and kept their mouths shut about their horrendous working conditions worse than slavery. (Their illegal status made them "deport-able".) Cesar Chavez railed against the use of Mexican illegal labor which denied Mexican American farm workers their "right to work," and even went to jail for protesting against Arizona's use of illegals. Isabel Garcia supported identity politics in direct opposition to Martin Luther King and Cesar Chavez, waved the Mexican Flag, and shouted "Viva La Raza" and "Kill the Gringo," and thus supported the notion that America was a welcoming place for illegal entrants.
Roy, you have ‘answered your own question’ by pointing out that it is the illegalization of the laborers which makes them most exploitable.
Sue Chambers: Why should legal resident Hispanics, Mexicans who are here with a green card, and American Hispanic citizens have to compete for jobs with illegal entrants, whom Arizona employers prefer, because they are willing to work twice as hard for half as much pay? Would YOU be willing to work for less money?
Paul Houston: Do you REALLY believe that? Why did Cesar Chavez oppose the use of illegal labor? The Grapes of Wrath reveals the evil that excess labor creates. Cesar Chavez knew that an unlimited supply benefits the employer and lowers wages for the working man.