Back in 2014, when I designated Cesar Chavez’s birthday as National Border Control Day, it was, of course, partly a troll. The left had turned Chavez into the Hispanic Gandhi, naming streets after him and turning his birthday into March’s answer to Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Imagine my satisfaction when Dolores Huerta, Chavez’s more conventionally leftist co-founder of the United Farm Workers union, told NBC News my initiative was “a mean thing to do.”

But it wasn’t entirely a troll. Chavez really was a border hawk, because illegal immigration (and guest worker programs) really did undermine the efforts of U.S. citizen farmworkers ...

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