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Cesar Chavez descendent asked "Where are your papers?" in Morgan Hill

by Tea Party Watch
Monica Chavez Delgado, Cesar Chavez's granddaughter, born and raised in California and a former Live Oak High School student, was asked "Where are your papers?" by anti-immigrant tea party participants in Morgan Hill this past weekend.
The Mercury News reported on a tea party demo in Morgan Hill (south of San Jose) this weekend. The report says that "One man on the median waved an enormous Arizona flag in a show of the crowd's support for that state's controversial new immigration law," and that signs such as "Secure our borders, support Arizona" were prominent at the street gathering

The Mercury article goes on to say that a woman driving by thrust a thumbs-down sign out her window. In response, someone in the crowd shouted, "Do you have papers?"

The woman then circled back, parked her car and confronted the protesters. That woman was Monica Chavez Delgado is Cesar Chavez's granddaughter, "born and raised in California and a former Live Oak High School student", reported the Mercury which went on to say that

"The incident left her shaken as she prepared to phone her mother, the daughter of the legendary Mexican-American labor and civil rights leader."

From: http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_15047406?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com&nclick_check=1
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