I recently watched a group of protesters, most of them young, denouncing President Donald

Trump's immigration policies.

They were waving Mexican flags and shouting, « Ceci Puede!» as we can.

This is now the rallying cry of the open borders left, but it wasn't always.

In fact, I wondered if a single person at the protest knew where it came from.

The slogan first became famous 50 years ago thanks to Caesar Chavez, he was the founder

of the United Farm Workers Union.

When Chavez said Ceci Puede, he meant something very different.

Yes, we can.

Seal the borders.

Caesar Chavez hated illegal immigration.

He was Hispanic, obviously, and definitely on the left, but he fought to keep illegal

Mexican immigrants out of this country.

He understood that peasants from Latin America will always work for less than Americans will.

That's why employers prefer them.

Chavez knew that.

As long as we have a poor country bordering California he once explained, it's going

to be very difficult to win strikes.

In 1969, Chavez let a march down the center of California to protest the hiring of illegal

immigrant produce pickers.

Marching alongside him was Democratic Senator Walter Mondale and the Reverend Ralph Abernathy,

the longtime aide to Martin Luther King.

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