[Congressional Bills 115th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H. Res. 791 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. RES. 791 Expressing support for the designation of Cesar Chavez's birthday, March 31, as National Border Control Day. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 20, 2018 Mr. Gohmert submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary _______________________________________________________________________ RESOLUTION Expressing support for the designation of Cesar Chavez's birthday, March 31, as National Border Control Day. Whereas Cesar Chavez was born on March 31, 1927, in Yuma, Arizona; Whereas the Chavez family lost its home in the Great Depression and moved to California when Cesar was 12; Whereas Cesar Chavez left school at age 15 to work full time in the fields; Whereas Cesar Chavez learned that, as biographer Miraim Pawel writes, ``a surplus of labor enabled growers to treat workers as little more than interchangeable parts, cheaper and easier to replace than machines''; Whereas, in 1962, Cesar Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW), to improve the wages and working conditions for American farmworkers; Whereas Cesar Chavez believed that preventing illegal immigration was an essential prerequisite to improving the circumstances of American farmworkers; Whereas, in 1969, Cesar Chavez testified before Congress that ``We gave the Immigration and Naturalization Services and the Border Patrol stacks and stacks of information. They did not pull workers out of struck fields. . . This is why we are forced to boycott: We have had no enforcement by the Border Patrol''; Whereas, in the mid-1970s, Cesar Chavez organized the UFW's ``Illegals Campaign'' to identify and report illegal workers, saying that ``If we can get the illegals out of California, we will win the strike overnight.''; Whereas, in 1974, as part of this campaign, Cesar Chavez sent a memo to UFW officials announcing ``the beginning of a MASSIVE CAMPAIGN to get the recent flood of illegals out of California''; Whereas, in 1979, at a speech before the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Cesar Chavez demanded that the Federal Government enforce the immigration laws and keep illegal aliens out of the country, adding that, ``if my mother was breaking the strike and if she were illegal, I'd ask the same thing.''; and Whereas Cesar Chavez devoted his professional life to ensuring that efforts of American workers to bargain for higher wages and better working conditions were not undermined by illegal immigration: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the House of Representatives-- (1) supports the designation of National Border Control Day; (2) expresses strong support for Cesar Chavez's efforts to educate his fellow Americans about the harmful effects of illegal immigration; and (3) encourages the people of the United States to observe National Border Control Day with appropriate ceremonies and activities. <all>