IV 
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 De-
pression 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 
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Farm Workers (UFW), to improve the wages and work-
ing conditions for American farmworkers; 
Whereas Cesar Chavez believed that preventing illegal immi-
gration was an essential prerequisite to improving the cir-
cumstances of American farmworkers; 
Whereas, in 1969, Cesar Chavez testified before Congress 
that ‘‘We gave the Immigration and Naturalization Serv-
ices and the Border Patrol stacks and stacks of informa-
tion. 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 begin-
ning 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 ensur-
ing that efforts of American workers to bargain for high-
er wages and better working conditions were not under-
mined by illegal immigration: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
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(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 appro-
priate ceremonies and activities. 
Æ 
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