July 1, 2025. Speaking to The New York Review of Books about labor organizing history in Los Angeles, Director of the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies Gaspar Rivera-Salgado noted, "In Los Angeles, labor started organizing and seeing immigrants as the future in the late 1980s." Article author Piper French notes, "Then, in 1986, came Reagan's amnesty bill, which granted millions of immigrants legal status and made them potential new union...
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