Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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During the last 10 years of his life, I worked very closely with Cesar Chavez.
I worked with him.
He had two issues.
He had pesticides, which were a huge issue with him, and that's what I worked with him on, on the dangers that, you know, his workers were experiencing from pesticides.
And the other issue he had was immigration.
He wanted to shut down the border.
Because he saw the way that it was impairing this huge influx of illegal immigration across the board.
It was impairing his ability to bargain, to leverage good wages and conditions for his workers.
When I grew up, the Democratic Party was against immigration and it was the Republican Party who wanted it because the big corporations wanted cheap labor.
The Chamber of Commerce was firmly embedded in the Republican Party and they were all about open borders.
A, the Chamber of Commerce is with the Democratic Party.
And so it's one of these switches that is kind of inexplicable to me.
But I think, again, it happened because President Trump said, I'm going to fix it with a wall.
And that became, you know, it suddenly became open borders, suddenly became...
a calling card for the Democratic Party.
But there's a reason, you know, and I see it in my agency, the cause that it's imposing on our country and, you know, on health care, diminishing health care for Americans and housing and jobs and all of these places where it hurts that we need workers in here and we need legal immigrants in here.
But they should come in legally and every country has to do that.
President Trump ran on this issue.
He's nowβand he ran that he's going to enforce and deport particularly the bad people.
This is what you don't hear.