In studying their newspaper El Malcriado from 1965 to 1972 we will see that the UFW, to a certain extent, had a working relationship with border patrol. El Malcriado presented some of these questions to UFWOC Vice President Julio Hernandez, who is a citizen of Mexico and works in the United States under a green card permit. Then, in January 1968, after the company had beaten the first boycott by shipping its grapes under the labels of other California and Arizona growers, the union extended the boycott to all table-grape growers.Chávez had a hard time adjusting to his new life as part of the migrant farm labor force.
The Union is keeping close tabs on every scab and on each man who is investigated to see that justice is done. In August 1967, the union struck Giumarra Vineyards, a family-owned business and the largest grower of grapes in California. At the same time, the Teamsters continued to challenge the UFW for the right to represent field hands, using its control over the trucking industry to force the growers to sign its contracts.Despite the new law, the UFW never regained the momentum it had enjoyed in the early 1970s. He has declared war on us, and we must defend ourselves, our families, and our jobs.This article shows how the UFW was cheering for border patrol to do their job, and how the UFW would assist by reporting “on the enforcement of this new rule.”El Malcriado has received many questions from farm workers who want to know exactly what is the union’s policy toward “Green Card” worker, Mexican citizens working in this country with form 1-151 permits. George Mariscal is a historian who documents the working relationship that Chavez and the UFW had with border patrol in his book Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun. History: Cesar Chavez's History of Anti-Mexican Sentiment. But the UFW never managed to stabilize its membership base. Chavez leads a 1,000-person march calling for improved working conditions in farms. His parents, Librado Chávez, a small farmer and businessman, and Juana Estrada Chávez, a strong-willed, pious Catholic, ran a farm, grocery store, garage and pool hall in Arizona's North Gila Valley, near the California-Mexico border. Important Notice” written in May 15, 1968, before the interview with Julio Hernandez, it becomes apparent that the UFW had already began to take the names down of strike breakers to submit them to border patrol. Cesar Chavez was a Latino-American civil rights activist who fought against the mistreatment of farm laborers and migrant workers in a non-violent way.
By 1969, the boycott had stopped the sales of California table grapes in Detroit, Chicago, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Montreal and Toronto.
1994: Chavez is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. We do not like to take this action against someone who should be our brother, but a man who breaks the strike has betrayed his brothers and all farm workers. That was because the UFW wanted border patrol to deport the Mexican migrant farm worker who crossed their picket lines. In the article it stated that “Every day UFW is submitting lists of green card strikebreakers to the Immigration Service. But the UFW crossed a bigger line when they called on and submitted names and addresses to border patrol of migrants to be deported.