Linda Chavez

Summary (posts follow):

Columnist, Fox News analyst, and chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity. Strong supporter of massive immigration. Serves as a director of the boards of two large companies that employ large numbers of low-wage workers: the janitorial company ABM and the chicken processor Pilgrims Pride (abm.com/ABOUT-ABM/Pages/Board-of-Directors.aspx).

She was appointed Director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights by Ronald Reagan and was later an immigration advisor to George W Bush in 2000. He selected her to head the Department of Labor in 2001, but she withdrew because, in her words, "a decade earlier I had taken into my home and given modest financial assistance to a battered and abused woman from Guatemala, who at the time was illegally living in the United States" (link).

If you trust her position on immigration, please see the links below.

Last modified Feb 26, 2010

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Linda Chavez misleads: doesn't support true "market-based" immigration; "progressive-baits" enforcement supporters - 2/26/2010

Linda Chavez - among other things a director of low-wage employers Pilgrims Pride and ABM - offers the misleading "Progressives and Immigration Reform" (link). The part where she tries to tar those who support immigration enforcement as heirs to the progressive movement appears to be a cheap attempt to glom onto Glenn Beck's crusade against that same movement:

"Room for Debate": New York Times tries new immigration "reform" push - 3/12/2009

... things, one of the opponents is Linda Chavez. Some debate. [1] roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/ the-best-ways-to-teach-young-newcomers

Letter: last 100 conservatives who support Senate amnesty bill must band together! - 6/05/2007

... editor, National Review Online * Linda Chavez, chairman, Center for Equal Opportunity Two others are open/loose borders "economists", Gregory Mankiw, professor of economics, Harvard University; Donald J. Boudreaux, chairman, Economics Department, George Mason University. You can see an example of the latter's thinking abilities on display in this post. The first was a signatory to ...

Senate immigration amnesty bill: the supporters - 5/21/2007

... massive illegal immigration: Linda Chavez, Michael Gerson, and Robert Novak. SPECIAL "LIBERAL" HACK UPDATE: Eleanor Clift offers "Bush Is Right—On Immigration, Anyway". She and the preceding hacks aren't that much different. Let's count the lies: Just as [Pete Wilson]'s anti-immigrant [lie] policies turned California into the bluest of Blue States [misleading ...

NRO on Graf/Hayworth election results myth - 11/17/2006

... favorites such as: Fred Barnes, Linda Chavez (first link), Tamar Jacoby, and the Wall Street Journal editorial page. Plus, they inform us that the myth has also been spread by Arlen Specter (link) and Michael Barone (link). Then: ...Time for a reality check. This year’s anti-Republican wave was indiscriminate, washing away such immigration hawks as John Hostettler and Charles Taylor, but also ...

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