Bert Corona: Father of the Illegal Immigration Movement

Tony Mauricio Arita, 33 and his daughter Andrea Nicole, 10, from Honduras, part of a caravan of thousands from Central America trying to reach the United States, move next to a border wall before crossing illegally from Mexico to the U.S, in Tijuana, Mexico, on Dec. 4, 2018. Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters

Commentary

If the illegal immigration/amnesty movement can claim one father, it is undoubtedly a man whose name you likely don’t know: Bert Corona. The issue now dividing America like no other began as a tiny campaign, nurtured for decades by the late Corona, a Los Angeles labor leader and lifelong Marxist-Leninist.