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What A Day

How Biden Can Move Voters on Immigration

What A Day

What A Day

News, Daily News

4.612.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Cesar Chavez Day was Sunday, and it’s the day when Americans honor the late Latino civil rights icon and labor activist. Chavez is most known for co-founding the United Farm Workers (UFW) — the nation’s first-ever farmworker union. He dedicated his life to the fight for better working conditions and wages for people who were part of the agricultural workforce — many of whom were migrants. And while Chavez’s track record on immigration is complicated, UFW is one of many organizations that currently advocates for the rights of undocumented workers, more pathways to citizenship, and overall immigration reform.

In this special episode, we host a roundtable with Dani Marrero Hi of La Uniòn del Pueblo Entro, Liza Schwartzwald of the New York Immigration Coalition, and Pulitzer Prize-winning immigration journalist Molly O’Toole. We talk about why our immigration system doesn’t work — and what’s at stake this November as both Biden and Trump make their case for how to fix it.

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0:00.0

It's Monday, April 1st. I'm Travel Anderson.

0:09.3

And I'm Priyanka Arabindy and this is what a day.

0:12.1

And on today's show, we're doing something a little different.

0:15.3

We're going to spend the entire episode today talking about immigrant rights, how to address the

0:19.6

influx of migrants at the southern border, and what President Biden can do on the issue

0:23.8

that moves voters this November. And we're doing this because yesterday was

0:27.8

Caesar Chavez Day, the day that we honor the late Latino civil rights

0:31.9

icon in labor activist.

0:34.0

Americans who are truly interested in working for social change

0:38.1

can increasingly look less and less

0:40.9

to the political process for redress of their grievances and solutions to their problems.

0:46.0

The truth is felt even more intensely if people seeking redress happen to be farm workers or minority group people or just

0:56.9

plain poor folk. That's Chavez speaking in 1991 at a conference in DC,

1:03.0

but you're perhaps more familiar with his model

1:06.0

that's often used today as a rallying call for social justice,

1:10.0

if say pueblo, or or yes it can be done.

1:12.8

Yes, a very iconic motto.

1:15.4

Chavez is most known for co-founding the United Farm Workers

1:18.6

the nation's first ever Farm Workers Union.

1:21.1

He dedicated his life to the fight for better working conditions

1:23.7

and wages for people who are part of the agricultural workforce, many of whom were

1:27.9

migrants. But I know that his legacy is a little complicated when it comes to his

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