Summary
Labor organizations have come to see America in much the same terms as the allies in MALDEF, the National Council of La Raza and the League of United Latin American Citizens. They believe Hispanic and other Third World immigrants are America's victims who can be organized into a coalition of "people of color." In 2001 the AFL-CIO Executive Council, the General Amnesty Coalition and other groups co-sponsored a May Day March for Workers' Rights and March for Immigrant Rights.
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Member-Hungry Unions Place Hope in Mass Immigration
It was solidarity time inside the great hall along Chicago's Navy Pier last July. The AFL-CIO was holding its 50th-anniversary convention. And support for mass immigration was a top priority. At various points in the proceedings, federation leaders such as President John Sweeney, and marquee guest speakers such as Jesse Jackson and Sen. Ted Kennedy (D.-Mass.), peppered their speeches with appeals to Congress to grant legal amnesty to millions of "undocumented workers."
The speakers appeared to have forgotten that lawmakers did just that nearly 20 years earlier, in the process exacerbating the very conditions they intended to resolve. But the AFL-CIO leadership, not to mention the roughly...See the full content of this document
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