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January 16, 2007
 
 

Latino Prof. Uses King Day Speech to Support Illegal Immigration


"Two Colorado State University professors exchanged harsh words during and after Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration at CSU. CSU anthropology professor Norberto Valdez delivered the keynote address during a community celebration at the Lory Student Center. He criticized, but did not mention by name, the chairman of the economics department, Steven Shulman, and his research regarding illegal immigration and its relationship to low wages for African-American and Latino workers," the CSU Coloradan reports."In an e-mailed statement to the Coloradoan, Shulman said Valdez was misrepresenting Chavez’s stand on illegal immigration and accused him of trying to rewrite history. Shulman cited two articles that mention Chavez’s opposition to illegal immigration in the 1960s and 1970s . . . Shulman said Valdez’s comments regarding his research were 'false' and 'reprehensible.' 'He cannot deny the research that has consistently shown that mass immigration drives down the wages and employment of African-Americans, so he insults the scholars who do the research,' Shulman wrote."

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