Radicalize Undocumented Immigrants in the US?

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I'm not too clear on the history of immigration to the US, specifically from Mexico, but also from Latin America in general. I know there were a lot of labor abuses in the past, and people like Caesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta fought to organize immigrant farm workers, but I really don't know much else.

So, I would like some good resources to learn about the legacy of Labor struggles specifically of Mexican and Latin American immigrants in the South and West.

But also, I was wondering, because I do somewhat keep up with current events. I know for example that draconian and racist laws are being proposed all over the country a la Arizona sb1070, and that hate crimes against immigrants are both common place and hardly reported on.

So my question would be, basically, isn't time for the left to take up as its main priority the radicalization of the Mexican and Latin American immigrant population in America?

There are reasons why this is a good idea:
1. Undocumented Latina/o immigrants are the most marginalized group in the US in terms of rights.
2. This same group is also demonized and blamed for many problems (they took our jobs).
3. Racism against this group is public and overt and receives little to no reprimands.
4. If the US was Nazi Germany, undocumented immigrants would be the jews.

Unless we radicalize large sectors of this marginalized group, they will continue to suffer injustice and hate at the hands of racist individuals as well as institutionalized racism perpetrated by local, state and the federal government.

There is much revolutionary potential in the immigrant population in the US. I look at immigrants in places like France and the UK, and I am jealous of how radicalized they are. Aside from the problems religion poses on both sides of the Atlantic, I think this is one of the least tapped sources of radicalism one could possibly want on the left.

What do you guys think?

[Os Cangaceiros]

It's pretty difficult to organize undocumented workers, for the obvious reason that such individuals don't want attention drawn to themselves for fear of deportation.

[¿Que?]

It's pretty difficult to organize undocumented workers, for the obvious reason that such individuals don't want attention drawn to themselves for fear of deportation.
That's a good point. I guess some of the difference between the immigrant situation in Europe and that of the US is that they don't have anything like the 14th amendment in many European countries. Which means alot of their immigrants would actually be citizens here.

Anyway, what's missing here is an historical perspective, basically why I included all that other stuff at the beginning of my post.