insurance for farm workers, disability insurance for farm workers, worker's compensation for farm workers, all laws that were passed with the community service organization by the united farm workers. it's interesting because in new york state, carry kennedy has been trying to get some of the same laws we have in california that we passed those laws in california almost 40 years ago and yet, in new york state, or the rest of the country, you don't have these protections for farm workers. farm workers are suffering. >> why did that battle have to be fought against and again? and once some victories were won, why didn't they stick in a lot of places farm workers have moved backwards from where they were when you won the first contracts with grape growers? >> since jerry brown has gotten re-elected, the legislature passed a law that says if they don't negotiate, they can take them to court and get a bargaining order which means they have to sign a contract. the farm workers have thousands of workers but they refused to bargain. we will take you to court and force you to sign that contract. >> agricultural labor, the nature of it is such that if one group of workers wants

with the farm workers, luckily in california, we were able to get the right to organize and so in the areas where the united farm worker has union contracts, the wages are higher than, say, than the minimum wage. but we know that other parts of the country, unfortunately, we have a lower minimum wage and farm workers do not have union contracts. also, in california, we have unemployment insurance for farm workers, disability insurance for farm workers, worker's compensation for farm workers, all laws that were passed with the community service organization by the united farm workers. it's interesting because in new york state, carry kennedy has been trying to get some of the same laws we have in california that we passed those laws in california almost 40 years ago and yet, in new york state, or the rest of the country, you don't have these protections for farm workers. farm workers are suffering. >> why did that battle have to be fought against and again? and once some victories were won, why didn't they stick in a lot of places farm workers have moved backwards from where they were when you won the first

i drugged them around the country with me and at one point in the united farm workers world, in 1965 d '66, when we had the big one, i set up the first day care for farm worker children in california and we had people come and showed us how to set that up. and that's a big problem for women today because we have a lot of women. day care is extremely expensei for women. you know, they have to pay half of their salary or more sometimes just to get somebody to have adequate, safe care for their children. and we are talking about day care, we want like what we did in the union, we actually set up a school for the kids. president obama has actually stated we need to have early childhood education for all of our children and it's been proven if children can get learning at a very early stage, that it really helps them in terms of their abilities then to learn and even to go to college. so, i think this is a mandate, you know, we are the only developed country in the world that does not have this kind of care for our kids and this kind of education. >> at the time you won the first contract

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strikes a cord with my hispanic viewer, it's because it is also the name of the founder of the united farm workers who popularized the slogan, "si se pueda," which means "yes, we, can," but if he were alive today, chavez might be saying, "oh,, no he didn't." but this isn't merely political pandering, folks, this change was a long time coming. as the politician formally known as fistler explained, he experienced many hardships because of his name. i don't see why. i mean, fistler, that's a great name for a leader. it sounds like he's the hitler of fisting. [cheering and applause] heil fistler. [laughter] so fistler just wanted to change it to something that would be a popular name with voters. so i think it showed great restraint that he didn't just go with cherry garcia. [laughter] but cesar chavez's campaign isn't just about a confusing name. it's also about a confusing web site. >> on his campaign web site, chavez features images of crowds of people holding chavez signs and wearing t-shirts, but the pictures are actually from a rally from the late venezuelan president president hu go chavez. >>

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she co-founded the united farm worker's union. >> when you think of this

she co-founded the united farm worker's union. >> when you think of this humiliate people and oppresshem and not providing the basic human needs they have is just a

she co-founded the united farm worker's union. >> when you think of this mentality that you want to huiate people and oppre

. >> this whole area has a long history of immigrants rights activism getting back to united farm workers. >> in murrieta speaking out in support but harry ramos says this isn't about people. it's about policy. >> transporting them around the country ain holding areas and releasing them to the public does not address the problem. in fact, it encourages and exacerbates the situation. >> two cities, two opposing viewpoints, both waiting for washington to find a solution as the immigration crisis hits home. jennifer london, al jazeera, murrieta, california. >> some contractics say washington is the root cause of the current wave of undo you think minors. in 2008 a bill was pass meant to protect children from sexual trafficking. george w. bush signed it into law shortly before he left. it doesn't allow the government to deport children from outside mexico or canada without further investigation supporters say it's not to blame for the current crisis. earlier, i spoke with zoe lochran on boarder security. i asked her who is to blame for the crisis developing along the border. >> well, i think

we -- you know, we have about 2 million migrant farm workers in the united states. if you go to any grower and they'll tell you, agriculture in america could not survive without those migrant farm workers. 80% of them probably are undocumented. how many visas a year do we have for employment based residences not based on a college diploma? 5,000. 2 million workers, 5,000 visa, who set the situation up? we did. we need to fix this so it works for the yoounlsz, so it works for american business, so it works for american families. we need a law that's enforceable and then we need to enforce it. >> those are some of the issues that jeb bush talked about yesterday in his wall street journal op-ed. here's the tweet, the border crisis required strong leadership now and reforms that will prevent this influx in the future. glen in lancaster, california, independent line. glen, you're on with representative zoe lofgren. >> good morning, zoe. please comment after she answers my questions from bonnie. we're releasing these children, are we fingerprinting them first so we can tra

united workers congress. and these are ten different very low income employee sectors; they're farm workers; they're nannies; they're taxicab drivers; they're day laborers; and they're adjunct professors. >> adjunct professors? >> professors. >> that's an unusual participant in a coalition like that. >> they're paid a poverty wage, no health benefits, no security, job security you know, just like fast-food workers, in fact. >> what does that suggest to you? >> it suggests that people are beginning to get together and see their common interests. so here are some of the, here are the highest educated poverty workers in america with the lowest educated poverty workers and seeing that they're in the same boat now. and that realization is a powerful political potential. i'll give you another example. we had a world protest against mcdonald's. there were 30 countries involved in it. that takes organization. again, it's not high visibility yet, but neither was civil rights until it popped up. to me, these things have a dynamic of their own, a life of their own, and there comes a point at which the people are pushin

we have about two million migrant farm workers in the united states. u to any grower, they'll tell you agriculture in america could not survive without those migrant farm workers. 80% of them probably are undocumented. how many visas a year do we have for employment based residents not based on a college diploma? 5000. two million farm workers, 5000 visas. who set this situation up? we did. we need to fix this so it works for the united states and works for american business and american workers. we need a law that's enforceable. host: those are some of the issues that jeb bush talked about yesterday. here's the tweet, the border crisis requires strong leadership now and reforms to prevent influx in the future. glyn in lancaster, california you're on with representative zoe lofgren. caller: please let me comment after she answers my questions from bonnie. are we fingerprinting them first so we can track them down? are we fingerprinting the people we're releasing these children to? host: glenn, do you think that's a good idea? caller: , i do. i get finge

about illegal immigration in the united states, we'd look at our own self, the man and woman in the mirror. we'd go to the farms if texas, california, bringing in migrant workersget poultry and pick oranges. we'd go to the businesses in construction bringing in migrant workers and pay them under the table and let them run willy-nilly. if we did something to the businesses we could solve a lot of problems and focus on the humanitarian crisis like the kids that need asylum. >>> switching topics from the crisis on the border to a growing threat from a reported link up between al qaeda and yemen, and the islamic state in syria and iraq. islamic state fighters are collaborating with yemeni bomb-makers, to build a device that can be put on a laptop or cell phone and carried on a plane. eric holder was told "i think we are at a dangerous time." >> in some ways it's more frightening than anything i have seen as an attorney-general. you have people with the technical know how and people with a fervor to give their lives in support of a cause given at the united states and allies. it's something that gives us extreme concern. >> all right. for more, joining me from wash