IMMIGRATION: THREATENING THE BONDS OF OUR UNION
PART I: COURAGE AND CAPITULATION IN CALIFORNIA
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WHY DID REPUBLICAN PETE WILSON WIN THE RACE FOR GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIAN 1994? WHY DID REPUBLICAN DAN LUNGREN LOSE THE RACE FOR GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA IN 1998. BECAUSE WILSON ADDRESSED THE LEGITIMATE CONCERNS CALIFORNIANS HAD REGARDING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND LUNGREN DID NOT. CALIFORNIANS, THUS ABANDONED BY LUNGREN, STAYED HOME ON ELECTION DAY.
WHY SHOULD THE REST OF AMERICA CARE? YOU WILL SOON FIND OUT.
LISA MCCREE, KABC TV: NEVER IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN IMMIGRATION HAVE SO MANY IMMIGRANTS COME FROM A SOCIETY THAT'S AT OUR BORDER. MILLIONS OF MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS SEEKING A BETTER LIVE FOR AND THEIR FAMILIES HAVE BROUGHT THEIR CULTURE AND THEIR LANGUAGE TO THE SOUTHLAND AND THE SOUTHWEST.
PRESIDENT CLINTON: BUT MARK MY WORDS, IMMIGRATION OF THIS SWEEP AND SCOPE COULD THREATEN THE BONDS OF OUR UNION.
RICKY SIERRA: RICKY SIERRA OF THE CHICANO NATIONAL GUARD HERE TO TELL YOU TODAY THAT WE'RE RECOLONIZING AMERICA AND THEY'RE AFRAID OF US, THEY'RE VERY AFRAID. IT IS TIME FOR US TO TAKE BACK WHAT IS OURS.
HAROLD GREENE, KABC TV: AND AS THIS LARGE IMMIGRANT STREAM FLOWS INTO OUR REGION FROM A SINGLE CULTURAL, LINGUISTIC AND NATIONAL SOURCE, THERE ARE THOSE WHO FEAR THAT LOS ANGELES IS IN DANGER OF BECOMING A DIVIDED CITY.
(MARIO OBLEDO QUESTIONED BY CALLER TO RAY BRIEM SHOW, KIEV RADIO, JUNE 17, 1998.):
CALLER: YOU ALSO MADE THE STATEMENT THAT CALIFORNIA IS GOING TO BECOME A HISPANIC STATE AND ANYONE WHO DOESN'T LIKE THEY SHOULD LEAVE. DID YOU SAY THAT?
MARIO OBLEDO: I DID.
CALLER: AND YOU DON'T THINK THAT'S A RACIST STATEMENT?
MARIO OBLEDO: NO BECAUSE THAT'S A REALITY.
NARRATOR: AN INVASION IS SPREADING ACROSS AMERICA LIKE WILDFIRE BRINGING GANGS, DRUGS, AND AN ALIEN CULTURE INTO THE VERY HEARTLAND OF AMERICA.
ABC TV: MEXICAN DRUG LORDS MOVE IN ON SMALL TOWN AMERICA - HOOKING THE HEARTLAND.
NARRATOR: ON OCTOBER 13, 1998, ABC'S NIGHTLINE TOLD HOW MEXICAN DRUG LORDS HAD TARGETED IOWA. THE IMPACT ON TOWN'S LIKE DES MOINES WAS DEVASTATING. A YOUNG FOOTBALL STAR DESTINED FOR COLLEGE WAS HOOKED ON MEXICAN DRUGS TWO WEEKS BEFORE GRADUATION. FOURTEEN COLLEGES WANTED HIM. INSTEAD OF CLASSES, MIKE CARTER REPORTS TO HIS PAROLE OFFICER.
DES MOINES POLICE OFFICER: THE DAMAGE THEY HAVE DONE HERE IS NOT REPAIRABLE. YOU CAN'T GO IN AND REPAIR WHAT THEY'VE DONE. TED KOPPEL, ABC TV NIGHTLINE "IT'S THE MEXICO-IOWA CONNECTION AND IT'S WREAKING HAVOC ON AMERICA'S HEARTLAND."
NARRATOR: AFTER TYSON CHICKEN ERECTED BILLBOARDS IN MEXICO ADVERTISING JOBS IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS, THE ILLEGAL ALIEN POPULATION IN ROGERS EXPLODED....IN THE FALL OF 1998 THERE WERE FIVE DRIVE-BY SHOOTINGS IN ONE WEEK.
DAN MORRIS, ROGERS ARKANSAS (MCNEIL LEHRER): WE'RE ALSO TIRED OF SEEING OUR COMMUNITY BEING COLONIZED AND SEEING THE RESULTS OF AN OUT-OF-CONTROL IMMIGRATION POLICY REALLY TRANSFORM AND FOREVER POSSIBLY ALTER THE NATURE AND CHARACTER OF OUR COMMUNITY.
NARRATOR: EAGLE PASS TEXAS IS BEING INVADED BY MEXICO AND MEXICAN DRUGS. ON OCTOBER 3, 1997, CBS EVENING INTERVIEWED AN EAGLE PASS RANCHER WHO HAD TO CARRY A WEAPON TO PROTECT HIMSELF AGAINST MEXICAN DRUG SMUGGLERS. MOST OF HIS NEIGHBORS WERE LEAVING AND SOME RANCHERS ARE BEING BOUGHT BY MEXICAN DRUG LORDS.
DON FERRARONE, FORMER TEXAS DEA CHIEF: LITERALLY EVERY STEP OF THE WAY TO THE U.S. BORDER THERE IS SOME FORM OF MEXICAN GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT IN ASSISTING THE DRUG TRAFFICKERS.
NARRATOR: TOM PAGEL, WYOMING DIRECTOR OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS TOLD A LOS ANGELES TIMES REPORTER THAT ILLEGAL ALIENS AND DRUGS WERE THE GREATEST PROBLEMS FACING THE STATE. HE SAID THE VAST MAJORITY IS BEING TRANSPORTED UP FROM MEXICO "WE'RE GETTING OUR BUTTS KICKED OVER THIS, HE SAID."
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