Back then, President Ronald Reagan warned apocryphally that Central America was a threat to the United States, telling Congress in 1983 that “El Salvador is nearer to Texas than Texas is to Massachusetts.” Since the 1980s, I have researched, taught and written about this wave of migrants. More than 1 million Salvadorans and Guatemalans came to the United States from 1981 to 1990, fleeing army massacres, political persecution and civil war. labor movement in the 1980s, organizing far-reaching workers’ rights campaigns in immigrant-dominated industries that mainstream unions had thought to be untouchable. One contribution in particular is how Guatemalan and Salvadoran immigrants helped expand the U.S. society over the past 30 years rarely come up. In today’s polarized debates over immigration, the substantial contributions that Central American immigrants have made to U.S. I’ve been researching human rights and immigration from Central America since the 1980s. ![]() ![]() But that one was led by migrants from Central America. ![]() To me, these recent union wins recall another pivotal period in the U.S.
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