Labor leaders meet to discuss Mexican immigrant workers' rights

[AlphaCentauri]

Source: Dallas News

It's a critical time in the U.S. with an enthusiasm for politics unseen in decades, and that's given muscle to the Latino vote, said a U.S. labor leader Wednesday at a conference of Mexican immigrant leaders.

"In over 40 years of organizing, I've never seen this level of interest and it will be good for this democracy," said Eliseo Medina, the executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union, one of the largest labor groups in the U.S.

Mr. Medina urged the advisory council of the Mexican government's Institute for Mexicans Abroad to organize, to vote and to push for an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, as the conference moved into its second day.

"We can't have two classes of workers here," Mr. Medina said in Spanish.

Then, Mr. Medina, 62, shared his own immigrant story: His family immigrated to the U.S. legally to Delano, Calif., when he was 10, because like so many Mexican families today, they were tired of being separated from their farm worker father, the family's breadwinner.



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[Phred42]

1. Are these people Legally here or not?

This discussion will remain as dishonest as anything the Reich can put out if we continue with this BS tactic of conflating legal immigration with illegal invasion or as best: criminal trespass.

"IMMIGRATION" is a legally defined process.

If you successfully go through that process, and you are in this country based on completing that process, you are an immigrant. If you DO NOT go through and successfully complete that legally defined process, and you are in this country, you are NOT an Immigrant. You are either a tourist (which has it's own legally defined set of parameters) or a Criminal. You do not get to Steal a Citizenship. And Americans Do not OWE you a living.

No one gets to move to this country simply because they want to. Any sovereign Nation has the right and obligation to determine who enters and resides within it's borders. There is no global RIGHT to citizenship in America.

If your intent is to completely remove boarders than have THAT discussion - openly.

Stop conflating Immigration with criminal activity. They ain't the same thing.

[OhioChick]

2. Well Said.

Good analysis on the difference. :thumbsup:

[Phred42]

4. Tx - I'm damn tired of the Conflation

[AlphaCentauri]

5. Since to hold a job or work it's not illegal, they are immigrants.

[underpants]

3. Oh crap!! it is out in the light of day

the real reason the party of the Chamber of Commerce is so opposed to allowing a legal path

If they organize (and they probably will) we will have a juggernaut in the political process that we haven't seen in 30+ years AND all the work-til-you-drop morons are going to see how much they have been getting played all these years.