June 11, 2025 • 39 mins
What can we do to combat illegal immigration? To find the answer, we follow Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson’s journey to California, and tell the story of how a president from The Golden State changed the face of America...literally.
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Now on with the show. This episode was originally broadcast
on July eighteenth, twenty twenty one, but given the current
riots against Ice, it's just as relevant today. In effect,
America no longer has a border. Every hour, foreign invaders
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surge into our country from the south.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
It is a border crisis that Texas leaders say is
costing you hundreds of millions of dollars every single year.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
The monthly number of people apprehended on the southern border
is the highest it's been in nearly twenty years.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
The border crisis is showing absolutely no signs of slowing down.
Speaker 6 (01:15):
Sources confirming to Abcnew that the number of children detained
at the border has hit a record high.
Speaker 7 (01:20):
Some are calling a new humanitarian crisis is quickly unfolding
at the southern border.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
With illegal immigration at an all time high. What can
Americans do to combat this Southern invasion? I'm Patrick CARELCI.
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And I'm Adriana Coortez and this is Red Pilled America,
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Red Billed America. For decades, Americans have tried to get
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control of their southern border, but no matter how hard
they've tried, foreign invaders keep illegally surging into the country.
Is there anything Americans can do to combat this Southern invasion.
To find the answer, We're going to tell the story
of one man's journey to California and how in just
two decades he watched Los Angeles become the city of
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fallen Angels.
Speaker 8 (02:54):
It was around nineteen ninety and Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson
was working to rebuild Los Angeles black families when something
started to hit his radar. Blacks and Latinos were in conflict.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
We noticed that a lot of illegals had start coming
into the country. That's Jesse and as a result, the
blacks in the Hispanic were fighting their schools.
Speaker 9 (03:15):
The problems that angle would high go much deeper than
today's riots.
Speaker 10 (03:19):
Apparently the whole thing began last February when allegedly a
group of Hispanic students walked out of a Black History
Month assembly. Well today it seems that a group of
black students walked out of a single Demado celebration.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Yes, we did walk out, but they didn't want to
hit us first.
Speaker 11 (03:34):
Well, people were getting hit with bad bottles and they just.
Speaker 8 (03:36):
Start saying black power.
Speaker 9 (03:38):
So they start hitting allso we start hitting them back.
School officials canceled classes the Smith's students and called Engo
Wood police, but the encounters continued outside, where even desperate
parents looking for their children got caught in the middle.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Why you fight because you're black in a Mexic country.
We had a meeting nobody that we was gonna walk
out on nil and they said the Mayo things.
Speaker 12 (03:59):
So we did they talk about this is a black goal,
this is a black thing, this is our black neighborhood.
Speaker 11 (04:05):
It's not fair.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
We're Hispanics. We have a right to say whatever we want.
Speaker 9 (04:07):
Besides the Englewood High School, racially motivated violence also broke
out at Jordan High School and Manual Arts High By.
Speaker 8 (04:14):
The early nineteen nineties, tension had been brewing between blacks
and Hispanics for well over a decade. Again, jesse Lee Peterson.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
They were holding the blacks back to try to teach
the Hispanics who couldn't speak English and things like that.
They were taking the jobs from the blacks, you know,
low paying job, low wage job, and they were giving
them to the Hispanics for cheap labor. And the so
called civil rights leaders and all the people were not
doing anything about it.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
That wasn't always the case in Los Angeles.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
When I first moved here. There were no homeless people
that I remember seeing. There were no homeless businesses everywhere,
there were no drug addicts all over the streets, and
crime was not out of control.
Speaker 8 (04:57):
His experience in California shows just how much the state
has been transformed by illegal immigration. Jesse Lee Peterson isn't
a Los Angeles native. He was raised in the nineteen
fifties South.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
I grew up in Alabama on a plantation right outside
of Montgomery, Alabama, and my parents and their parents and
their parents and their parents worked in plantation. My grandfather
when I was growing up, my grandfather was like the
manager of it. He ran everything there. And I grew
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up under the Gym Crow laws, and I used to
have to ride the horse. When I became a teenager,
I had to ride the horse to go see my girlfriend.
I lived in a tin roof house and the bathroom
was built outside of the house.
Speaker 13 (05:53):
So I grew up at a.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Time when you would think that thing was really bad
for Black Americans, But they really were our best times.
These worst times we're having now, but our best time
was back then during the Jim Crow era, because we
had families, We had parents and grandparents, and our parents
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did not hate anyone or blame anyone. We took responsibility
for ourselves. They treated everyone the way that they would
like to be treated.
Speaker 13 (06:24):
Never minded color.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
And we knew that the Germ Crow Law, which we
talked about rarely, but we knew it was organized by
the Democrats, and they didn't want black people in the
Democratic Party at the time, and so we knew all that,
but we also knew that all white people wasn't for that.
They were not for the Gym crow law, and so
we treated people the way we would like to be treated.
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I remember for color's only signs, well, white's only signs,
but it was just the way it was. It didn't
stop us from moving forward in life. Our parents believed
in God, unlike the blast today they don't believe in God.
Speaker 13 (07:01):
They believe in color.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Jesse struggled in school and was at the bottom of
his class, but his family instilled a work ethic in him.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
I worked the plantation, the boys who would be taken
out of school to plant the crop, and then when
it's down to Harvey AND's to bring it in, we're
taken out to bring it in.
Speaker 13 (07:22):
I remember my.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Grandparents telling me we're going to raise you, but at eighteen,
you out of here.
Speaker 13 (07:28):
You gotta go.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
So when he wasn't in school, he was always looking
to work in the summer. After his eleventh grade year,
his uncle from California gave him a call and.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
He invited me out one summer to babysit for them, Like,
can you come out of babysitter for us?
Speaker 13 (07:44):
I'm like yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
When I walked off to the airplane in Los Angeles,
I knew this is where I would live. It was
like the palm trees, the weather, it was like paradise.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
So he went back to Alabama with the purpose.
Speaker 8 (07:58):
He squeaked by and graduated high school, then went to
Indiana to work. Jess enough to buy a ticket to California.
In nineteen sixty eight, at the age of eighteen, he
moved to southern California. Jesse first moved into his aunt
uncle's home in South Central.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
I remember when I first moved into that area. They
were mixed with black and white. A lot of white
folks were still there, and it was beautiful. The houses
were beautiful, and people walking the streets and not afraid
because there were no gains and things like that at
the time, so you were not afraid to walk the streets.
Speaker 8 (08:33):
He applied for a job at a local supermarket in
South Central.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
I got a job just like that, and because it
was plenty of jobs at the time, and I started
out as a boss boy at the supermarket. Then I
moved into the produce department because you can make more
money there. And from there I became a cashier. You
can make even more money in the cashier's department. So
I just worked my way up and from there I
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left and went to another company, Sears, and I stopped
making more money there.
Speaker 13 (09:03):
But I love the fact that.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
The opportunities was here at the time in California. The
people were friendlier at the time as well, because from
what I can tell, black people and white people got
along during that time. We were friendly with the white
folks in the neighborhood.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
The trouble was quietly brewing.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Number one is the so called civil rights movement that
Martin Luther King started. That should have never happened because
it separated the people, and the so called civil rights
leader took over the minds of black people and started
making them feel like they were victims. And so most
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black not all at all, but most blacks stopped thinking
for themselves as they turned their lives over to the
so called civil rights leaders Jesse Jackson and all those guys,
and they sold the blacks to the Democratic Party under
lindaby Ch Johnston for free money, welfare and all that.
And the civil rights people wanted power wealth for themselves,
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so they started pushing this idea about racism. White people
hate black folks and all that, and the blacks failed
for it.
Speaker 13 (10:16):
I remember things changing when that happened.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
At the same time the tensions between blacks and whites
began to grow. In the early seventies, another phenomenon was
impacting the black community.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
You started to have more out of wet lock birth,
because when I was growing up, it was less than
ten percent of black babies born out of wetlaw. But
when the civil rights leaders sold the blacks of the
government and these women started getting checks, welfare checks and
things like that, they stopped getting married. They started to
have babies just to be unwelfare because the more children
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you had, the more money you were gated. And so
they started having babies out of wet lot, no more
father and mother together. They started brainwashing the kids about
racism in the schools, and it just one thing led
to another, and they noticed that white people were not
speaking out against it. They were trying to appease the blacks.
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It just got worse and worse and worse.
Speaker 8 (11:13):
With tensions high. Whites began moving out of South Central
and its neighboring cities in a process that would later
be called white flight.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Eventually, white people moved away, and then the riff Rafts
came in with the Gang Bilas.
Speaker 8 (11:28):
Just as this social shift was occurring, the Los Angeles
black community was hit by another development, illegal immigration. An
influx of illegal aliens in California had slowly been increasing
since the mid nineteen sixties, but blacks were not the
first to be impacted by it. In a nineteen seventy
four interview, famed Mexican American labor activist Caesar Chavez was
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asked how this invasion from the South was affecting the
legal Hispanic residence of California.
Speaker 14 (11:55):
Well, there's an awful lot of illegals coming in by
the thousands. Some of the crews where there is now
strike breaking of the hus A one hundred percent illegals
outright openly with no attempt to disguise it. And so
it's so bad now that we estimate sixty to seventy
percent of the farm workers in California of the resident
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worker of the citizen is out of a job because
of the wet backs. They're coming in by the thousands.
Just unbelievable. See they're coming in with the consent of
the Immigration Service, which is part of the Department of Justice.
We think that as they preluded the beginning to a
big drive on the part of the administration and the
Mexican government to bring the Brassellro program again. It's a
vicious attack on the local worker, and it's just one
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of those things that every business thinks they can get
away with it. And our job is to inform the
whole country what's happening, together with a boycott and solve
it that way. And so the workers themselves, even though
a lot of them are a Mexican descendancy, themselves, are
very uptight and very very very mad about the illegals
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coming to break their strikes and it takes away their jobs,
their livelihood and so forth.
Speaker 15 (13:08):
Does that put you in an uncomfortable position to be
to be against the illegal immigrants because they are from Mexico.
In other words, part of your part of your program
has been an appeal to equal treatment of people of
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Mexican origin.
Speaker 14 (13:31):
Oh yeah, sure, but we're speaking of the legal ones.
You know. We don't want Mexico export its poverty to
us and then we pay. It's not that agriculture is
not society in general. It's a farm worker again paying
for those sins, you know. And Mexico should take the
initiative and and stop exporting the poverty to us. They
should do something about the rural economy over there. And
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and then see it's a it's a way of breaking
the strike. It's a web of the moral likes and
the farm workers. And for instance, workers are going to
ask for stamps, for food stamps. They're lining up the
offices for welfare and they're being told we can't give
you a job because there are plenty of jobs. And
the workers say, well, they're ain't any jobs. We've just
came from the fields. They won't hire us, or they
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just laid us off because either because we're strikers or
because we're members of the union, or because of Brazil's
the illegals. Rather, the illegals will do the job for
half the money we're getting.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
So by the mid nineteen seventies, according to Hispanic labor
activists Caesar Chavez, latinos were surging across our southern border,
taking the jobs of legal Hispanic residents in the agriculture industry.
To get a feel for the size of the surge.
In nineteen seventy, there were just two point four million
Latinos in California. By nineteen eighty, in just ten years,
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the Latino population almost doubled to four point five million.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
It was only a matter of time.
Speaker 8 (14:55):
Before the job losses caused by illegal immigration expanded from
the agriculture business to the city of Los Angeles, and
once it did, it would mainly affect poor blacks because
the legal aliens were taking low skilled jobs and resources
from their community. As whites began moving out of South
Central and its neighboring cities, the area became more unstable.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
I remember when the wife they would make run the
whites away from their own areas, and the blacks would
move in, and then they'll just.
Speaker 13 (15:25):
Be gained violence everywhere.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
And then eventually the Hispanis stopped moving in and they
started fighting with the blacks, and things just got even worse.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
Then the problem of illegal immigration would become so out
of control that it would enter the national stage. In
nineteen eighty two, Senator Alan Simpsom of Wyoming, a Republican,
introduced the Simpson Mizzoli Bill. The authors of the bill
claimed it was designed to get control of the problem
by forcing employers to verify the legal working status of
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their employees. It also purported to beef up enforcement at
the border. In exchange, the bill would grant amnesty for
any legal aliens that arrived in the country before January first,
nineteen eighty two. The Simpson Mizzoli bill failed to be
received by the House Congress, tried again in nineteen eighty four,
and again failed. As illegal immigration increased, DC politicians would
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eventually come together to solve the problem, but their solution
would arguably become the biggest political mistake in modern American history.
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Speaker 8 (17:40):
Welcome back to Red Pilled America. As illegal immigration increased,
DC politicians would eventually come together to solve the problem,
but their solution would arguably become the biggest political mistake
in modern American history. As the nineteen eighty four presidential
election heated up, immigration became a major topic in the
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second presidential debate, both Democrat nominee Walter Mondale and President
Ronald Reagan were asked about the issue.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Mister Mondale, many analysts are now saying that actually our
number one foreign policy problem today is one that remains
almost totally unrecognized, massive illegal immigration. They are saying that
it is the only real territorial threat to the American
nation state. You yourself said in the nineteen seventies that we
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had a quote hemorrhage on our borders unquote, Yet today
you have backed off any immigration reform, such as the
balanced and highly crafted Simpson Missoli Bill.
Speaker 16 (18:42):
Why this is a very serious problem in our country
and it has to.
Speaker 17 (18:46):
Be dealt with. I object to that part of.
Speaker 16 (18:49):
The Simpson Mossola Bill, which I think is very unfair
and would prove to be so. That is the part
that requires employers to determine the citizenship of an employee
before they're hired. I am convinced that the result of
this would be that people who are Hispanic, people who
have different languages or speak with an accent, would find
it difficult to be employed. I think that's wrong. We've
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never had citizenship tests in our country before, and I
don't think we should have a citizenship card today. We
need an answer to this problem, but it must be
an American answer.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Mister President, you too have said that our borders are
out of control. Yet this fall you allowed the Simpson
Missoli Bill, which would at least have minimally protected our
borders and the rights of citizenship, because of a relatively
unimportant issue of reimbursbursement to the states for legalized aliens.
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What priority can we expect you to give this forgotten
national security element? How sincere are you in your efforts
to control in effect the nation state that is the
United States.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
It is true our borders are out of control. It
is also true that this has been a situation on
our borders back through a number of administrations. And I
supported this bill. I believe in the idea of amnesty
for those who have put down roots and who have
lived here, even though sometime back they may have entered illegally.
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And I'm going to do everything I can, and all
of us in the administration are to join and again
when Congress is back at it, to get an immigration
bill that will give us once again control of our borders.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
After he won reelection in nineteen eighty four, Reagan would
make good on his promise.
Speaker 18 (20:48):
This bill, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of nineteen
eighty six, that I'll sign in a few minutes, is
the most comprehensive reform of our immigration laws since nineteen
fifty two. Future generations of Americans will be thankful for
our efforts to humanely regained control of our borders and
thereby preserve the value of one of the most sacred
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possessions of our people, American citizenship.
Speaker 8 (21:14):
But by signing the Act into law, Ronald Reagan made
the political mistake of the century. You see, the employer
verification aspect of the Act proved to be completely ineffective.
Employers that wanted cheap labor found ways around the verification requirement.
The loophole created a magnet for others to illegally enter
our country in hopes of another future amnesty. When the
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Act was signed in nineteen eighty six, there was an
estimated five million illegal aliens. One study estimates that the
illegal alien population grew to twenty two million by twenty sixteen.
The Act not only failed to control illegal immigration, it
increased it exponentially. As the problem worsened, so did job prospects.
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In nineteen nine, the American economy looked as if it
was entering a recession.
Speaker 17 (22:07):
Last month, wholesale prices were up by one point six percent.
The price of gasoline alone was up more than twenty percent,
and that is the largest one monthly increase in the
price of gas since the government began keeping a record
in nineteen forty seven.
Speaker 12 (22:21):
Since the events in the Middle East, what we've seen
is a much sharper reduction than consumer confidence, much more
widespread concern that the economy may indeed slip into recession during.
Speaker 13 (22:34):
This year ahead.
Speaker 8 (22:36):
The predictions were correct. The early nineties saw the beginning
of a recession, and the Golden State was hit especially hard.
A reported half of the national job losses were in California,
sending the state into a budget crisis.
Speaker 19 (22:50):
The state will keep on issuing us in famous ioused
for another week or so while let negotiates a short
term loan to pay off the three and a half
billion dollars in IOUs already issued. Since July, slashing came
at every corner. Health and welfare lost one point seven
billion dollars, State aid to local governments lost one point
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three billion dollars. The toughest cuts to make one billion
dollars from public schools.
Speaker 8 (23:16):
With budgets being cut in critical areas like healthcare, public education,
and welfare, Californians started to look even more critically at
the illegal aliens that were burdening those systems. Again, jesse
Lee Peterson.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
And so they were given to illegals free education and
free healthcare and free houses while the citizens was suffering,
and especially the black citizens.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
At the time, jesse Lee Peterson was becoming a national figure.
He founded a nonprofit organization called Bond, dedicated to rebuilding
the family by rebuilding the man, and was asked to
make appearances on popular talk shows like Donahue and Geraldo.
Speaker 19 (23:54):
Jesse Peterson director in found of a grassroots organization called
Bond Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny.
Speaker 20 (24:00):
First, I'd like to say that Bond is rebuilding the
black community by.
Speaker 13 (24:04):
Rebuilding the black man. What happened, the black man.
Speaker 20 (24:06):
Has failed and because of that, the black woman had
to take the responsibility on the black man. And she
can't handle the responsibility and what she has done because
of her weakness. She has destroyed her children because she's
not able to handle the household.
Speaker 21 (24:20):
But here to.
Speaker 19 (24:21):
Destroyed her children talked badly about their father, talk badly
about the father.
Speaker 11 (24:27):
Don't have to be black for this to happen.
Speaker 8 (24:29):
As his organization grew, he began to notice how Los
Angeles blacks were losing jobs to illegal aliens.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
And it got so bad that the blacks in East
LA and South Central LA were leaving their own communities
and moved back to the South and other places because
their leaders were not doing anything about it.
Speaker 8 (24:54):
The issue was exploding in California and even high school
kids began to speak out on the issue. American Blacks, Latinas,
and Anglos attended an immigration policy form in a city
bursting with illegal aliens Guardina, and they voice their frustration.
Speaker 22 (25:09):
You'd made the samement that immigrants rights and privileges. Yes,
everyone deserves rights and privileges, but what you're saying is
we need to put them above the rights of the
American citizens. We have an uninailable right to life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness. We're strangulating this with all
the flushing in of everybody and giving them everything. When
college graduates from this country can't even get jobs because
there is none.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
When other immigrants come over to America, when they come
over here, they must adjust to speak English. Instead of
us adjusting to their lifestyles, they should adjust to ours.
Speaker 23 (25:40):
And I'd like to say that I feel that we
are enticing illegal immigration because all a woman immigrant has
to do is have a child. We house them, we
feed them, we clothe them.
Speaker 13 (25:51):
What else do they want?
Speaker 23 (25:52):
I mean, there's living in slums elsewhere and they come here,
they have a kid, and they're covered.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I mean they don't have to work or anything.
Speaker 20 (25:58):
We know the two thirds of the babies born in
La County Hospital are born to mothers who were in
the country illegally.
Speaker 8 (26:05):
These were Los Angeles high school kids of all ethnic backgrounds,
and they were pissed about illegal immigration. In response to
the problem, a team of activists formed a group called
SOS Save Our State. Their goal was to get an
initiative on California's nineteen ninety four ballot that, if passed,
would establish a state run citizenship screening system and prohibit
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illegal aliens from receiving non emergency health care, public education,
and other services. Jesse's group BOND got involved with this effort.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
I got involved my organization along with Barbara Cole and
ease O, the Forshtitary Anderson and others, and we shaw
a hold of rallies to bring attention to this because
the Blacks was having a hard time.
Speaker 13 (26:48):
The illegal were moving into the towns.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
Initially, open borders activists didn't take this effort seriously. It
looked like an impossible task to get the initiative on
the upcoming ballot, But by June nineteen ninety four, the
SOS team got the signatures needed.
Speaker 24 (27:03):
Supporters are so passionate that something must be done. They
collected more than six hundred thousand signatures to get it
on the ballot, nearly a quarter million more than they needed.
Speaker 8 (27:13):
The initiative became known as Proposition one eighty seven, and
it became one of the most controversial ballot initiatives in
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Welcome back to red Pilled America. So in nineteen ninety four,
with a financial crisis and job losses rising, Californians look
to stop the illegal immigration burdening their systems. They got
enough signatures to include Proposition one eighty seven on the
ballot that, if passed, would stop providing non emergency services
to illegal aliens. The proposition would become one of the
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most controversial ballot initiatives in American history. California Republican Governor
Pete Wilson embraced the initiative.
Speaker 21 (29:10):
It has become the issue in the governor's race.
Speaker 25 (29:12):
Pete Wilson, a one to eighty seven supporter, is pinning
his re election hopes on Addie immigrant sentiment. We are
going to take back California for the working, tax paying
families of this state.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
He ran hard hitting advertisements promoting Prop twenty eighty seven.
Speaker 23 (29:30):
They keep coming two million illegal immigrants in California. The
federal government won't stop them at the border, yet requires
us to pay billions to take care of them. Governor
Pete Wilson sent the National Guard to help the border patrol.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Polling showed Californians were overwhelmingly in favor of the proposition.
It was popular among whites, blacks, and even Mexican Americans.
That fact brought out the big guns.
Speaker 11 (29:56):
Calling Proposition eighty seven and humane, racist, and immoral. Jesse
Jackson today publicly denounced called save our State Initiatives.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
Prop one eighty seven would be financial disaster for the
people of California.
Speaker 11 (30:11):
Flank by Latino and Black civil rights leaders, Jackson pledged
African Americans will help defeat Prop one eighty seven at
the poll.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Latino activist, civil rights activists, and Hollywood celebrities took to
the streets in a massive demonstration against the proposition.
Speaker 26 (30:27):
Well thousands of people marched through the streets of La
today making a statement against the controversial ballad measure Prop
one eighty seven. As many as one hundred thousand people
turned out, saying the so called Save Oar State initiative
would really sink our state.
Speaker 11 (30:41):
Although many carried Mexican flags, organizers defined.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
This protest as the new civil rights.
Speaker 9 (30:46):
Movement, impacting immigrants across the country, not just southern California.
Speaker 24 (30:51):
Well David Stilly, the battlefield for the immigration issue is
Prop one eighty seven.
Speaker 26 (30:55):
It would take away schools, healthcare, and other social services
from illegal immigrants and their children.
Speaker 24 (31:01):
Despite the vocal show of composition in the streets, two
polls this month show Prop one eighty seven is riding
high a head by sixty five to twenty seven percent
in the Key Calm nine used poll and by sixty
one to thirty two percent in this week's La Times poll.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
The issue became the centerpoint of the race for California governor.
Speaker 27 (31:19):
We can no longer afford to educate every child, every
poor child, from every foreign country.
Speaker 24 (31:25):
And Prop one eighty seven was one of the key issues.
Friday evening, with Kathleen Brown and Pete Wilson squared off
in their televised debate.
Speaker 20 (31:32):
I think that the problem with Proposition one eighty seven
is that it is going.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
To make a bad situation worse.
Speaker 27 (31:40):
I think one eighty seven not only is an opportunity
to send a message, but it's something much more. It
will create a lawsuit for once, a valuable lawsuit that
will go all the way to the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
When election night came in November nineteen ninety four, Pete
Wilson's gamble on aligning with Prop one eighty seven paid off.
Speaker 13 (31:59):
So get in is declaring.
Speaker 26 (32:00):
In California, incumbent Republican Governor Pete Wilson has turned back
the challenge by Democrat Casthleen Brown.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
The Republican governor won re election with fifty five percent
of the vote, but Prop one eighty seven surpassed his margin.
The so called controversial proposition wasn't controversial at all. It
passed with fifty nine percent of the vote. The results
were clear both Republicans and Democrats wanted an end to
illegal immigration, as Pete Wilson predicted. The day after Prop
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one eighty seven to one, a lawsuit was filed to
block its implementation in California.
Speaker 17 (32:34):
Tonight, if the popular will of the people and the
determination of the governor on hold.
Speaker 25 (32:39):
A federal court judge has ruled not so fast with
Proposition one eighty seven. Federal Judge Matthew Byrne issued a
restraining order which will prevent California from enforcing parts of
the proposition.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
In December nineteen ninety four, a federal judge issued a
permanent injunction of Prop one eighty seven, blocking most of
its provisions for the next four years. The new law
would be battled in the court and on the streets.
Jesse Lee Peterson used his platform to debate the issue
within the black community.
Speaker 6 (33:14):
Welcome to the Jesse Peterson Show. We're talking about a
very important issue today, and I think that it concerns
all of us, and especially Hispanish and Blacks.
Speaker 13 (33:25):
I guess, but.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
We're going to find out. We were talking about Proposition
one eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
He also took to the streets demanding enforcement of the law,
and when he did, Hispanic socialists used a tactic that
would later be adopted by Antifa. They got violent.
Speaker 13 (33:39):
So we would hold these rallies and they were amazing.
Speaker 12 (33:42):
Man.
Speaker 13 (33:42):
The Hispani would come out there, sometimes dressed in red,
and they.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Would have a new radical Hispanish tim they would have
frozen coke cans and would freeze the cans and rocks
and things, and they would throw them at us.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
In one instance, he stood with a white man who
was bloodied by the anti prop one eighty seven pro
testers as a Univision reporter tried to accuse the bleeding
man of being a racist?
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Are you am I?
Speaker 18 (34:10):
What?
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Why are your state here?
Speaker 13 (34:11):
Are you racist? Am I racist?
Speaker 14 (34:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (34:14):
No, I'm not a racist?
Speaker 5 (34:15):
Racist?
Speaker 21 (34:16):
So why would you ask him? Is he a racist?
Speaker 13 (34:18):
Let me let me see why would you ask that question?
Speaker 2 (34:20):
What what.
Speaker 13 (34:24):
You're asking him?
Speaker 6 (34:24):
Because he's white and you want to get away with
this racist BMW Are you racist?
Speaker 19 (34:29):
So?
Speaker 13 (34:30):
Why why is it that he a racist?
Speaker 6 (34:31):
Because he's standing up people?
Speaker 26 (34:34):
Do you like them?
Speaker 14 (34:36):
Do you know?
Speaker 13 (34:36):
Do you like them?
Speaker 15 (34:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 21 (34:38):
Like America?
Speaker 6 (34:39):
Do you like America? Then what's your problem? You should
be out here picking it with us. That's a dumb
question to add. You're asking that question so you can
use it all your program to make him look like
a racist. Why don't you ask me I'm a racist?
Because I'm black?
Speaker 7 (34:54):
Right?
Speaker 13 (34:55):
I love America too? It I think the illegally a.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
Need to be shipped back to that country.
Speaker 13 (34:59):
So why is that racist?
Speaker 21 (35:01):
You are racist?
Speaker 13 (35:02):
What asking him that question?
Speaker 21 (35:04):
Thank you, Jesse.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
In nineteen ninety seven, a Jimmy Carter appointed federal judge
found Prop one eighty seven to be unconstitutional. Pete Wilson
appealed the decision to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
It looked like it was going all the way to
the Supreme Court, but in nineteen ninety eight, as the
case awaited its stay in court.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Also tonight some very interesting governors races, none more interesting
than in California, where we now projected the Lieutenant Governor
Gray Davis, the Democrat, has defeated Attorney General Dan Lungren
Governor Pete Wilson. Of course, his term limited enormous win
with all sorts of ramifications. I'm sure ted you will
talk about four of the Democrats in the state of California.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Gray Davis almost immediately withdrew the appeal against the will
of the people. Proposition one eighty seven would never be implemented.
The Open Border's lobby, and they won big time. Over
the next two decades, illegal immigration would only get worse
in America, especially in California. In nineteen seventy, the state
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was seventy eight percent white and twelve percent Hispanic. In
July twenty fourteen, for the first time, Latinos surpassed whites
in the Golden State, and their numbers have only been increasing.
Americans tried again in twenty sixteen to regain control of
its border by electing the biggest immigration hawk of modern times.
Speaker 28 (36:33):
On day one, we will begin working on an impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful,
beautiful southern border wall.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
But just four years later, American southern border experienced an
invasion of illegal immigrants the likes of which we haven't
seen in a generation.
Speaker 21 (36:56):
The border surge is breaking records. Over one hundred seventy
two thousand migrants were stopped at the border last month,
the most in twenty years, and almost twenty one thousand
unaccompanied minors are now in federal custody, the most ever.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Which leads us back to the question, what can Americans
do to combat this southern invasion. The answer is breed.
Americans have exhausted every possible political remedy to stop the
invasion of our southern border. We've passed ballot initiatives, elected congressmen, senators,
and governors who've promised to stop illegal immigration. We put
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a man in the White House who floated ending birthright
citizenship and promised to build a wall. Extraordinary activists like
jesse Lee Peterson have courageously tried everything, but all these
efforts have only increased illegal immigration, and there appears to
be no end in sight. The only new thing left
to do is to follow some of the oldest and
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wisest words ever written. Be fruitful and multiply. This may
be a hard thing to hear, but illegal aliens have
won the battle. In the nine presidential elections preceding Reagan's amnesty,
Republican presidential candidates won California eight times, but since nineteen
eighty eight, they haven't won California even once. Ronald Reagan's
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decision to grant amnesty was perhaps the worst political mistake
in modern American history. Our leaders will not control our borders,
so we've entered a numbers game. We're not saying that
we shouldn't fight every new attempt at amnesty. We're not
saying we shouldn't vote out every open borders politician. But
it appears that the only way to win the war
against illegal immigration in the long run is to be
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fruitful and multiply because now that California is lost for
the foreseeable future, Texas appears to be their next target.
And these people, they mean business.
Speaker 8 (39:00):
We got that are land's land.
Speaker 14 (39:02):
This is all.
Speaker 8 (39:04):
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Now on with the show. This episode was originally broadcast
on July eighteenth, twenty twenty one, but given the current
riots against Ice, it's just as relevant today. In effect,
America no longer has a border. Every hour, foreign invaders
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surge into our country from the south.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
It is a border crisis that Texas leaders say is
costing you hundreds of millions of dollars every single year.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
The monthly number of people apprehended on the southern border
is the highest it's been in nearly twenty years.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
The border crisis is showing absolutely no signs of slowing down.
Speaker 6 (01:15):
Sources confirming to Abcnew that the number of children detained
at the border has hit a record high.
Speaker 7 (01:20):
Some are calling a new humanitarian crisis is quickly unfolding
at the southern border.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
With illegal immigration at an all time high. What can
Americans do to combat this Southern invasion? I'm Patrick CARELCI.
Speaker 8 (01:36):
And I'm Adriana Coortez and this is Red Pilled America,
a storytelling show. This is not another talk show covering
the day's news. We are all about telling stories.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Stories. Hollywood doesn't want you to hear stories.
Speaker 8 (01:50):
The media marks stories about everyday Americans at the globalists ignore.
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You could think of Red Pilled America as audio documentaries,
and we promise only one thing, the truth. Welcome to
Red Billed America. For decades, Americans have tried to get
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control of their southern border, but no matter how hard
they've tried, foreign invaders keep illegally surging into the country.
Is there anything Americans can do to combat this Southern invasion.
To find the answer, We're going to tell the story
of one man's journey to California and how in just
two decades he watched Los Angeles become the city of
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fallen Angels.
Speaker 8 (02:54):
It was around nineteen ninety and Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson
was working to rebuild Los Angeles black families when something
started to hit his radar. Blacks and Latinos were in conflict.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
We noticed that a lot of illegals had start coming
into the country. That's Jesse and as a result, the
blacks in the Hispanic were fighting their schools.
Speaker 9 (03:15):
The problems that angle would high go much deeper than
today's riots.
Speaker 10 (03:19):
Apparently the whole thing began last February when allegedly a
group of Hispanic students walked out of a Black History
Month assembly. Well today it seems that a group of
black students walked out of a single Demado celebration.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Yes, we did walk out, but they didn't want to
hit us first.
Speaker 11 (03:34):
Well, people were getting hit with bad bottles and they just.
Speaker 8 (03:36):
Start saying black power.
Speaker 9 (03:38):
So they start hitting allso we start hitting them back.
School officials canceled classes the Smith's students and called Engo
Wood police, but the encounters continued outside, where even desperate
parents looking for their children got caught in the middle.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Why you fight because you're black in a Mexic country.
We had a meeting nobody that we was gonna walk
out on nil and they said the Mayo things.
Speaker 12 (03:59):
So we did they talk about this is a black goal,
this is a black thing, this is our black neighborhood.
Speaker 11 (04:05):
It's not fair.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
We're Hispanics. We have a right to say whatever we want.
Speaker 9 (04:07):
Besides the Englewood High School, racially motivated violence also broke
out at Jordan High School and Manual Arts High By.
Speaker 8 (04:14):
The early nineteen nineties, tension had been brewing between blacks
and Hispanics for well over a decade. Again, jesse Lee Peterson.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
They were holding the blacks back to try to teach
the Hispanics who couldn't speak English and things like that.
They were taking the jobs from the blacks, you know,
low paying job, low wage job, and they were giving
them to the Hispanics for cheap labor. And the so
called civil rights leaders and all the people were not
doing anything about it.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
That wasn't always the case in Los Angeles.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
When I first moved here. There were no homeless people
that I remember seeing. There were no homeless businesses everywhere,
there were no drug addicts all over the streets, and
crime was not out of control.
Speaker 8 (04:57):
His experience in California shows just how much the state
has been transformed by illegal immigration. Jesse Lee Peterson isn't
a Los Angeles native. He was raised in the nineteen
fifties South.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
I grew up in Alabama on a plantation right outside
of Montgomery, Alabama, and my parents and their parents and
their parents and their parents worked in plantation. My grandfather
when I was growing up, my grandfather was like the
manager of it. He ran everything there. And I grew
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up under the Gym Crow laws, and I used to
have to ride the horse. When I became a teenager,
I had to ride the horse to go see my girlfriend.
I lived in a tin roof house and the bathroom
was built outside of the house.
Speaker 13 (05:53):
So I grew up at a.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Time when you would think that thing was really bad
for Black Americans, But they really were our best times.
These worst times we're having now, but our best time
was back then during the Jim Crow era, because we
had families, We had parents and grandparents, and our parents
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did not hate anyone or blame anyone. We took responsibility
for ourselves. They treated everyone the way that they would
like to be treated.
Speaker 13 (06:24):
Never minded color.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
And we knew that the Germ Crow Law, which we
talked about rarely, but we knew it was organized by
the Democrats, and they didn't want black people in the
Democratic Party at the time, and so we knew all that,
but we also knew that all white people wasn't for that.
They were not for the Gym crow law, and so
we treated people the way we would like to be treated.
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I remember for color's only signs, well, white's only signs,
but it was just the way it was. It didn't
stop us from moving forward in life. Our parents believed
in God, unlike the blast today they don't believe in God.
Speaker 13 (07:01):
They believe in color.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Jesse struggled in school and was at the bottom of
his class, but his family instilled a work ethic in him.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
I worked the plantation, the boys who would be taken
out of school to plant the crop, and then when
it's down to Harvey AND's to bring it in, we're
taken out to bring it in.
Speaker 13 (07:22):
I remember my.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Grandparents telling me we're going to raise you, but at eighteen,
you out of here.
Speaker 13 (07:28):
You gotta go.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
So when he wasn't in school, he was always looking
to work in the summer. After his eleventh grade year,
his uncle from California gave him a call and.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
He invited me out one summer to babysit for them, Like,
can you come out of babysitter for us?
Speaker 13 (07:44):
I'm like yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
When I walked off to the airplane in Los Angeles,
I knew this is where I would live. It was
like the palm trees, the weather, it was like paradise.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
So he went back to Alabama with the purpose.
Speaker 8 (07:58):
He squeaked by and graduated high school, then went to
Indiana to work. Jess enough to buy a ticket to California.
In nineteen sixty eight, at the age of eighteen, he
moved to southern California. Jesse first moved into his aunt
uncle's home in South Central.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
I remember when I first moved into that area. They
were mixed with black and white. A lot of white
folks were still there, and it was beautiful. The houses
were beautiful, and people walking the streets and not afraid
because there were no gains and things like that at
the time, so you were not afraid to walk the streets.
Speaker 8 (08:33):
He applied for a job at a local supermarket in
South Central.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
I got a job just like that, and because it
was plenty of jobs at the time, and I started
out as a boss boy at the supermarket. Then I
moved into the produce department because you can make more
money there. And from there I became a cashier. You
can make even more money in the cashier's department. So
I just worked my way up and from there I
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left and went to another company, Sears, and I stopped
making more money there.
Speaker 13 (09:03):
But I love the fact that.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
The opportunities was here at the time in California. The
people were friendlier at the time as well, because from
what I can tell, black people and white people got
along during that time. We were friendly with the white
folks in the neighborhood.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
The trouble was quietly brewing.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Number one is the so called civil rights movement that
Martin Luther King started. That should have never happened because
it separated the people, and the so called civil rights
leader took over the minds of black people and started
making them feel like they were victims. And so most
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black not all at all, but most blacks stopped thinking
for themselves as they turned their lives over to the
so called civil rights leaders Jesse Jackson and all those guys,
and they sold the blacks to the Democratic Party under
lindaby Ch Johnston for free money, welfare and all that.
And the civil rights people wanted power wealth for themselves,
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so they started pushing this idea about racism. White people
hate black folks and all that, and the blacks failed
for it.
Speaker 13 (10:16):
I remember things changing when that happened.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
At the same time the tensions between blacks and whites
began to grow. In the early seventies, another phenomenon was
impacting the black community.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
You started to have more out of wet lock birth,
because when I was growing up, it was less than
ten percent of black babies born out of wetlaw. But
when the civil rights leaders sold the blacks of the
government and these women started getting checks, welfare checks and
things like that, they stopped getting married. They started to
have babies just to be unwelfare because the more children
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you had, the more money you were gated. And so
they started having babies out of wet lot, no more
father and mother together. They started brainwashing the kids about
racism in the schools, and it just one thing led
to another, and they noticed that white people were not
speaking out against it. They were trying to appease the blacks.
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It just got worse and worse and worse.
Speaker 8 (11:13):
With tensions high. Whites began moving out of South Central
and its neighboring cities in a process that would later
be called white flight.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Eventually, white people moved away, and then the riff Rafts
came in with the Gang Bilas.
Speaker 8 (11:28):
Just as this social shift was occurring, the Los Angeles
black community was hit by another development, illegal immigration. An
influx of illegal aliens in California had slowly been increasing
since the mid nineteen sixties, but blacks were not the
first to be impacted by it. In a nineteen seventy
four interview, famed Mexican American labor activist Caesar Chavez was
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asked how this invasion from the South was affecting the
legal Hispanic residence of California.
Speaker 14 (11:55):
Well, there's an awful lot of illegals coming in by
the thousands. Some of the crews where there is now
strike breaking of the hus A one hundred percent illegals
outright openly with no attempt to disguise it. And so
it's so bad now that we estimate sixty to seventy
percent of the farm workers in California of the resident
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worker of the citizen is out of a job because
of the wet backs. They're coming in by the thousands.
Just unbelievable. See they're coming in with the consent of
the Immigration Service, which is part of the Department of Justice.
We think that as they preluded the beginning to a
big drive on the part of the administration and the
Mexican government to bring the Brassellro program again. It's a
vicious attack on the local worker, and it's just one
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of those things that every business thinks they can get
away with it. And our job is to inform the
whole country what's happening, together with a boycott and solve
it that way. And so the workers themselves, even though
a lot of them are a Mexican descendancy, themselves, are
very uptight and very very very mad about the illegals
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coming to break their strikes and it takes away their jobs,
their livelihood and so forth.
Speaker 15 (13:08):
Does that put you in an uncomfortable position to be
to be against the illegal immigrants because they are from Mexico.
In other words, part of your part of your program
has been an appeal to equal treatment of people of
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Mexican origin.
Speaker 14 (13:31):
Oh yeah, sure, but we're speaking of the legal ones.
You know. We don't want Mexico export its poverty to
us and then we pay. It's not that agriculture is
not society in general. It's a farm worker again paying
for those sins, you know. And Mexico should take the
initiative and and stop exporting the poverty to us. They
should do something about the rural economy over there. And
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and then see it's a it's a way of breaking
the strike. It's a web of the moral likes and
the farm workers. And for instance, workers are going to
ask for stamps, for food stamps. They're lining up the
offices for welfare and they're being told we can't give
you a job because there are plenty of jobs. And
the workers say, well, they're ain't any jobs. We've just
came from the fields. They won't hire us, or they
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just laid us off because either because we're strikers or
because we're members of the union, or because of Brazil's
the illegals. Rather, the illegals will do the job for
half the money we're getting.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
So by the mid nineteen seventies, according to Hispanic labor
activists Caesar Chavez, latinos were surging across our southern border,
taking the jobs of legal Hispanic residents in the agriculture industry.
To get a feel for the size of the surge.
In nineteen seventy, there were just two point four million
Latinos in California. By nineteen eighty, in just ten years,
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the Latino population almost doubled to four point five million.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
It was only a matter of time.
Speaker 8 (14:55):
Before the job losses caused by illegal immigration expanded from
the agriculture business to the city of Los Angeles, and
once it did, it would mainly affect poor blacks because
the legal aliens were taking low skilled jobs and resources
from their community. As whites began moving out of South
Central and its neighboring cities, the area became more unstable.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
I remember when the wife they would make run the
whites away from their own areas, and the blacks would
move in, and then they'll just.
Speaker 13 (15:25):
Be gained violence everywhere.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
And then eventually the Hispanis stopped moving in and they
started fighting with the blacks, and things just got even worse.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
Then the problem of illegal immigration would become so out
of control that it would enter the national stage. In
nineteen eighty two, Senator Alan Simpsom of Wyoming, a Republican,
introduced the Simpson Mizzoli Bill. The authors of the bill
claimed it was designed to get control of the problem
by forcing employers to verify the legal working status of
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their employees. It also purported to beef up enforcement at
the border. In exchange, the bill would grant amnesty for
any legal aliens that arrived in the country before January first,
nineteen eighty two. The Simpson Mizzoli bill failed to be
received by the House Congress, tried again in nineteen eighty four,
and again failed. As illegal immigration increased, DC politicians would
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eventually come together to solve the problem, but their solution
would arguably become the biggest political mistake in modern American history.
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Speaker 8 (17:40):
Welcome back to Red Pilled America. As illegal immigration increased,
DC politicians would eventually come together to solve the problem,
but their solution would arguably become the biggest political mistake
in modern American history. As the nineteen eighty four presidential
election heated up, immigration became a major topic in the
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second presidential debate, both Democrat nominee Walter Mondale and President
Ronald Reagan were asked about the issue.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Mister Mondale, many analysts are now saying that actually our
number one foreign policy problem today is one that remains
almost totally unrecognized, massive illegal immigration. They are saying that
it is the only real territorial threat to the American
nation state. You yourself said in the nineteen seventies that we
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had a quote hemorrhage on our borders unquote, Yet today
you have backed off any immigration reform, such as the
balanced and highly crafted Simpson Missoli Bill.
Speaker 16 (18:42):
Why this is a very serious problem in our country
and it has to.
Speaker 17 (18:46):
Be dealt with. I object to that part of.
Speaker 16 (18:49):
The Simpson Mossola Bill, which I think is very unfair
and would prove to be so. That is the part
that requires employers to determine the citizenship of an employee
before they're hired. I am convinced that the result of
this would be that people who are Hispanic, people who
have different languages or speak with an accent, would find
it difficult to be employed. I think that's wrong. We've
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never had citizenship tests in our country before, and I
don't think we should have a citizenship card today. We
need an answer to this problem, but it must be
an American answer.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Mister President, you too have said that our borders are
out of control. Yet this fall you allowed the Simpson
Missoli Bill, which would at least have minimally protected our
borders and the rights of citizenship, because of a relatively
unimportant issue of reimbursbursement to the states for legalized aliens.
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What priority can we expect you to give this forgotten
national security element? How sincere are you in your efforts
to control in effect the nation state that is the
United States.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
It is true our borders are out of control. It
is also true that this has been a situation on
our borders back through a number of administrations. And I
supported this bill. I believe in the idea of amnesty
for those who have put down roots and who have
lived here, even though sometime back they may have entered illegally.
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And I'm going to do everything I can, and all
of us in the administration are to join and again
when Congress is back at it, to get an immigration
bill that will give us once again control of our borders.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
After he won reelection in nineteen eighty four, Reagan would
make good on his promise.
Speaker 18 (20:48):
This bill, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of nineteen
eighty six, that I'll sign in a few minutes, is
the most comprehensive reform of our immigration laws since nineteen
fifty two. Future generations of Americans will be thankful for
our efforts to humanely regained control of our borders and
thereby preserve the value of one of the most sacred
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possessions of our people, American citizenship.
Speaker 8 (21:14):
But by signing the Act into law, Ronald Reagan made
the political mistake of the century. You see, the employer
verification aspect of the Act proved to be completely ineffective.
Employers that wanted cheap labor found ways around the verification requirement.
The loophole created a magnet for others to illegally enter
our country in hopes of another future amnesty. When the
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Act was signed in nineteen eighty six, there was an
estimated five million illegal aliens. One study estimates that the
illegal alien population grew to twenty two million by twenty sixteen.
The Act not only failed to control illegal immigration, it
increased it exponentially. As the problem worsened, so did job prospects.
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In nineteen nine, the American economy looked as if it
was entering a recession.
Speaker 17 (22:07):
Last month, wholesale prices were up by one point six percent.
The price of gasoline alone was up more than twenty percent,
and that is the largest one monthly increase in the
price of gas since the government began keeping a record
in nineteen forty seven.
Speaker 12 (22:21):
Since the events in the Middle East, what we've seen
is a much sharper reduction than consumer confidence, much more
widespread concern that the economy may indeed slip into recession during.
Speaker 13 (22:34):
This year ahead.
Speaker 8 (22:36):
The predictions were correct. The early nineties saw the beginning
of a recession, and the Golden State was hit especially hard.
A reported half of the national job losses were in California,
sending the state into a budget crisis.
Speaker 19 (22:50):
The state will keep on issuing us in famous ioused
for another week or so while let negotiates a short
term loan to pay off the three and a half
billion dollars in IOUs already issued. Since July, slashing came
at every corner. Health and welfare lost one point seven
billion dollars, State aid to local governments lost one point
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three billion dollars. The toughest cuts to make one billion
dollars from public schools.
Speaker 8 (23:16):
With budgets being cut in critical areas like healthcare, public education,
and welfare, Californians started to look even more critically at
the illegal aliens that were burdening those systems. Again, jesse
Lee Peterson.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
And so they were given to illegals free education and
free healthcare and free houses while the citizens was suffering,
and especially the black citizens.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
At the time, jesse Lee Peterson was becoming a national figure.
He founded a nonprofit organization called Bond, dedicated to rebuilding
the family by rebuilding the man, and was asked to
make appearances on popular talk shows like Donahue and Geraldo.
Speaker 19 (23:54):
Jesse Peterson director in found of a grassroots organization called
Bond Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny.
Speaker 20 (24:00):
First, I'd like to say that Bond is rebuilding the
black community by.
Speaker 13 (24:04):
Rebuilding the black man. What happened, the black man.
Speaker 20 (24:06):
Has failed and because of that, the black woman had
to take the responsibility on the black man. And she
can't handle the responsibility and what she has done because
of her weakness. She has destroyed her children because she's
not able to handle the household.
Speaker 21 (24:20):
But here to.
Speaker 19 (24:21):
Destroyed her children talked badly about their father, talk badly
about the father.
Speaker 11 (24:27):
Don't have to be black for this to happen.
Speaker 8 (24:29):
As his organization grew, he began to notice how Los
Angeles blacks were losing jobs to illegal aliens.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
And it got so bad that the blacks in East
LA and South Central LA were leaving their own communities
and moved back to the South and other places because
their leaders were not doing anything about it.
Speaker 8 (24:54):
The issue was exploding in California and even high school
kids began to speak out on the issue. American Blacks, Latinas,
and Anglos attended an immigration policy form in a city
bursting with illegal aliens Guardina, and they voice their frustration.
Speaker 22 (25:09):
You'd made the samement that immigrants rights and privileges. Yes,
everyone deserves rights and privileges, but what you're saying is
we need to put them above the rights of the
American citizens. We have an uninailable right to life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness. We're strangulating this with all
the flushing in of everybody and giving them everything. When
college graduates from this country can't even get jobs because
there is none.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
When other immigrants come over to America, when they come
over here, they must adjust to speak English. Instead of
us adjusting to their lifestyles, they should adjust to ours.
Speaker 23 (25:40):
And I'd like to say that I feel that we
are enticing illegal immigration because all a woman immigrant has
to do is have a child. We house them, we
feed them, we clothe them.
Speaker 13 (25:51):
What else do they want?
Speaker 23 (25:52):
I mean, there's living in slums elsewhere and they come here,
they have a kid, and they're covered.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I mean they don't have to work or anything.
Speaker 20 (25:58):
We know the two thirds of the babies born in
La County Hospital are born to mothers who were in
the country illegally.
Speaker 8 (26:05):
These were Los Angeles high school kids of all ethnic backgrounds,
and they were pissed about illegal immigration. In response to
the problem, a team of activists formed a group called
SOS Save Our State. Their goal was to get an
initiative on California's nineteen ninety four ballot that, if passed,
would establish a state run citizenship screening system and prohibit
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illegal aliens from receiving non emergency health care, public education,
and other services. Jesse's group BOND got involved with this effort.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
I got involved my organization along with Barbara Cole and
ease O, the Forshtitary Anderson and others, and we shaw
a hold of rallies to bring attention to this because
the Blacks was having a hard time.
Speaker 13 (26:48):
The illegal were moving into the towns.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
Initially, open borders activists didn't take this effort seriously. It
looked like an impossible task to get the initiative on
the upcoming ballot, But by June nineteen ninety four, the
SOS team got the signatures needed.
Speaker 24 (27:03):
Supporters are so passionate that something must be done. They
collected more than six hundred thousand signatures to get it
on the ballot, nearly a quarter million more than they needed.
Speaker 8 (27:13):
The initiative became known as Proposition one eighty seven, and
it became one of the most controversial ballot initiatives in
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Speaker 1 (28:38):
Welcome back to red Pilled America. So in nineteen ninety four,
with a financial crisis and job losses rising, Californians look
to stop the illegal immigration burdening their systems. They got
enough signatures to include Proposition one eighty seven on the
ballot that, if passed, would stop providing non emergency services
to illegal aliens. The proposition would become one of the
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most controversial ballot initiatives in American history. California Republican Governor
Pete Wilson embraced the initiative.
Speaker 21 (29:10):
It has become the issue in the governor's race.
Speaker 25 (29:12):
Pete Wilson, a one to eighty seven supporter, is pinning
his re election hopes on Addie immigrant sentiment. We are
going to take back California for the working, tax paying
families of this state.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
He ran hard hitting advertisements promoting Prop twenty eighty seven.
Speaker 23 (29:30):
They keep coming two million illegal immigrants in California. The
federal government won't stop them at the border, yet requires
us to pay billions to take care of them. Governor
Pete Wilson sent the National Guard to help the border patrol.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Polling showed Californians were overwhelmingly in favor of the proposition.
It was popular among whites, blacks, and even Mexican Americans.
That fact brought out the big guns.
Speaker 11 (29:56):
Calling Proposition eighty seven and humane, racist, and immoral. Jesse
Jackson today publicly denounced called save our State Initiatives.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
Prop one eighty seven would be financial disaster for the
people of California.
Speaker 11 (30:11):
Flank by Latino and Black civil rights leaders, Jackson pledged
African Americans will help defeat Prop one eighty seven at
the poll.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Latino activist, civil rights activists, and Hollywood celebrities took to
the streets in a massive demonstration against the proposition.
Speaker 26 (30:27):
Well thousands of people marched through the streets of La
today making a statement against the controversial ballad measure Prop
one eighty seven. As many as one hundred thousand people
turned out, saying the so called Save Oar State initiative
would really sink our state.
Speaker 11 (30:41):
Although many carried Mexican flags, organizers defined.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
This protest as the new civil rights.
Speaker 9 (30:46):
Movement, impacting immigrants across the country, not just southern California.
Speaker 24 (30:51):
Well David Stilly, the battlefield for the immigration issue is
Prop one eighty seven.
Speaker 26 (30:55):
It would take away schools, healthcare, and other social services
from illegal immigrants and their children.
Speaker 24 (31:01):
Despite the vocal show of composition in the streets, two
polls this month show Prop one eighty seven is riding
high a head by sixty five to twenty seven percent
in the Key Calm nine used poll and by sixty
one to thirty two percent in this week's La Times poll.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
The issue became the centerpoint of the race for California governor.
Speaker 27 (31:19):
We can no longer afford to educate every child, every
poor child, from every foreign country.
Speaker 24 (31:25):
And Prop one eighty seven was one of the key issues.
Friday evening, with Kathleen Brown and Pete Wilson squared off
in their televised debate.
Speaker 20 (31:32):
I think that the problem with Proposition one eighty seven
is that it is going.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
To make a bad situation worse.
Speaker 27 (31:40):
I think one eighty seven not only is an opportunity
to send a message, but it's something much more. It
will create a lawsuit for once, a valuable lawsuit that
will go all the way to the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
When election night came in November nineteen ninety four, Pete
Wilson's gamble on aligning with Prop one eighty seven paid off.
Speaker 13 (31:59):
So get in is declaring.
Speaker 26 (32:00):
In California, incumbent Republican Governor Pete Wilson has turned back
the challenge by Democrat Casthleen Brown.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
The Republican governor won re election with fifty five percent
of the vote, but Prop one eighty seven surpassed his margin.
The so called controversial proposition wasn't controversial at all. It
passed with fifty nine percent of the vote. The results
were clear both Republicans and Democrats wanted an end to
illegal immigration, as Pete Wilson predicted. The day after Prop
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one eighty seven to one, a lawsuit was filed to
block its implementation in California.
Speaker 17 (32:34):
Tonight, if the popular will of the people and the
determination of the governor on hold.
Speaker 25 (32:39):
A federal court judge has ruled not so fast with
Proposition one eighty seven. Federal Judge Matthew Byrne issued a
restraining order which will prevent California from enforcing parts of
the proposition.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
In December nineteen ninety four, a federal judge issued a
permanent injunction of Prop one eighty seven, blocking most of
its provisions for the next four years. The new law
would be battled in the court and on the streets.
Jesse Lee Peterson used his platform to debate the issue
within the black community.
Speaker 6 (33:14):
Welcome to the Jesse Peterson Show. We're talking about a
very important issue today, and I think that it concerns
all of us, and especially Hispanish and Blacks.
Speaker 13 (33:25):
I guess, but.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
We're going to find out. We were talking about Proposition
one eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
He also took to the streets demanding enforcement of the law,
and when he did, Hispanic socialists used a tactic that
would later be adopted by Antifa. They got violent.
Speaker 13 (33:39):
So we would hold these rallies and they were amazing.
Speaker 12 (33:42):
Man.
Speaker 13 (33:42):
The Hispani would come out there, sometimes dressed in red,
and they.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Would have a new radical Hispanish tim they would have
frozen coke cans and would freeze the cans and rocks
and things, and they would throw them at us.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
In one instance, he stood with a white man who
was bloodied by the anti prop one eighty seven pro
testers as a Univision reporter tried to accuse the bleeding
man of being a racist?
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Are you am I?
Speaker 18 (34:10):
What?
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Why are your state here?
Speaker 13 (34:11):
Are you racist? Am I racist?
Speaker 14 (34:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (34:14):
No, I'm not a racist?
Speaker 5 (34:15):
Racist?
Speaker 21 (34:16):
So why would you ask him? Is he a racist?
Speaker 13 (34:18):
Let me let me see why would you ask that question?
Speaker 2 (34:20):
What what.
Speaker 13 (34:24):
You're asking him?
Speaker 6 (34:24):
Because he's white and you want to get away with
this racist BMW Are you racist?
Speaker 19 (34:29):
So?
Speaker 13 (34:30):
Why why is it that he a racist?
Speaker 6 (34:31):
Because he's standing up people?
Speaker 26 (34:34):
Do you like them?
Speaker 14 (34:36):
Do you know?
Speaker 13 (34:36):
Do you like them?
Speaker 15 (34:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 21 (34:38):
Like America?
Speaker 6 (34:39):
Do you like America? Then what's your problem? You should
be out here picking it with us. That's a dumb
question to add. You're asking that question so you can
use it all your program to make him look like
a racist. Why don't you ask me I'm a racist?
Because I'm black?
Speaker 7 (34:54):
Right?
Speaker 13 (34:55):
I love America too? It I think the illegally a.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
Need to be shipped back to that country.
Speaker 13 (34:59):
So why is that racist?
Speaker 21 (35:01):
You are racist?
Speaker 13 (35:02):
What asking him that question?
Speaker 21 (35:04):
Thank you, Jesse.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
In nineteen ninety seven, a Jimmy Carter appointed federal judge
found Prop one eighty seven to be unconstitutional. Pete Wilson
appealed the decision to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
It looked like it was going all the way to
the Supreme Court, but in nineteen ninety eight, as the
case awaited its stay in court.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Also tonight some very interesting governors races, none more interesting
than in California, where we now projected the Lieutenant Governor
Gray Davis, the Democrat, has defeated Attorney General Dan Lungren
Governor Pete Wilson. Of course, his term limited enormous win
with all sorts of ramifications. I'm sure ted you will
talk about four of the Democrats in the state of California.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Gray Davis almost immediately withdrew the appeal against the will
of the people. Proposition one eighty seven would never be implemented.
The Open Border's lobby, and they won big time. Over
the next two decades, illegal immigration would only get worse
in America, especially in California. In nineteen seventy, the state
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was seventy eight percent white and twelve percent Hispanic. In
July twenty fourteen, for the first time, Latinos surpassed whites
in the Golden State, and their numbers have only been increasing.
Americans tried again in twenty sixteen to regain control of
its border by electing the biggest immigration hawk of modern times.
Speaker 28 (36:33):
On day one, we will begin working on an impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful,
beautiful southern border wall.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
But just four years later, American southern border experienced an
invasion of illegal immigrants the likes of which we haven't
seen in a generation.
Speaker 21 (36:56):
The border surge is breaking records. Over one hundred seventy
two thousand migrants were stopped at the border last month,
the most in twenty years, and almost twenty one thousand
unaccompanied minors are now in federal custody, the most ever.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Which leads us back to the question, what can Americans
do to combat this southern invasion. The answer is breed.
Americans have exhausted every possible political remedy to stop the
invasion of our southern border. We've passed ballot initiatives, elected congressmen, senators,
and governors who've promised to stop illegal immigration. We put
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a man in the White House who floated ending birthright
citizenship and promised to build a wall. Extraordinary activists like
jesse Lee Peterson have courageously tried everything, but all these
efforts have only increased illegal immigration, and there appears to
be no end in sight. The only new thing left
to do is to follow some of the oldest and
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wisest words ever written. Be fruitful and multiply. This may
be a hard thing to hear, but illegal aliens have
won the battle. In the nine presidential elections preceding Reagan's amnesty,
Republican presidential candidates won California eight times, but since nineteen
eighty eight, they haven't won California even once. Ronald Reagan's
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decision to grant amnesty was perhaps the worst political mistake
in modern American history. Our leaders will not control our borders,
so we've entered a numbers game. We're not saying that
we shouldn't fight every new attempt at amnesty. We're not
saying we shouldn't vote out every open borders politician. But
it appears that the only way to win the war
against illegal immigration in the long run is to be
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fruitful and multiply because now that California is lost for
the foreseeable future, Texas appears to be their next target.
And these people, they mean business.
Speaker 8 (39:00):
We got that are land's land.
Speaker 14 (39:02):
This is all.
Speaker 8 (39:04):
Red Pilled America is an iHeartRadio original podcast. It's produced
by me Adriana Cortez and Patrick Carrelci for Inform Ventures.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
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