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Reform advocates say extending the pro-reform movement to the Valley was also part of a strategy to boost their ranks and present a more diversified face in the national debate.
"This movement is not so dissimilar from the African-American civil rights movements of the '60s and '70s and even today," said labor activist David Frelow of the Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition.
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It is very different.
The Black civil rights movement (which was hijacked by racist brown nationalism) had to do with American citizens who had been here for many generations - it was not a vehicle for the legitimization of the relatively recent, illegally arrived from south of the border.
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