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Californias Alex Padilla brings rare Senate perspective - an immigrant familys struggle for dignity FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 New Democratic Sens. Alex Padilla, D-Calif. (left), who took the seat vacated by Vice President Kamala Harris, John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., and Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M.J. Scott Applewhite / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less 2of2 Like many California Latinos of his generation, Sen. Alex Padilla’s political consciousness was forged by Proposition 187.Justin Sullivan / TNSSh...

Bay Briefing: California to lift stay-at-home orders statewide, source says FacebookTwitterEmail Nurse Jeanna Beckham tends to a patient in the COVID ward at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital.Nic Coury / Special to The Chronicle Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Monday, Jan. 25, and the clock is ticking on California’s pandemic eviction moratorium. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. Bay Area counties probably back to purple tier today California will lift regional stay-home orders ...

>> what is your take on this. >> here we are demonizing the immigrants and dealing with this part of the problem and it is a wholistic problem. there are people who are already here. and there are children in cages at the border and the people who hire people who are undocumented in this country. and very rarely do those folks ever get -- face any serious penalties. there was a study that showed something like 11 companies or individuals have actually been prosecuted but with minimal punishment....

Mara liasson, and byron york. great panel. i said see you tonight. a good fight here, steve. right is a go? >> you got to take a long view of the history come you go back to the mid-1990s, california passed something called proposition 187, which among as many provisions, required local law enforcement to report anyone who is here illegally. activists went to court to block it. 1997, a federal judge ruled in san california is powerless to end its own legislative -- to enact his own legislative s...

A judge in maryland and ruled it unconstitutional to bar transgender volunteers from service. the ruling went on to order the government to cover gender reassignment surgery at taxpayer expense. these judges are not interpreting the law, much less enforcing it. they are inventing the law. they reject the core idea of democracy, which is aac country whose policies are determined by its citizens. its voters. a the judges are in control, no matter what you want or who you voted for. increasingly, t...

Say shithouse or shithole did he say this? but its the implications of what is his strategy? he is desiring of whiteness. he does not want folks from africa nations, in this country. he says why cant we get more norwegians. in 2043 america will be a majority minority country. what you have here is fear. you have fear in terms of the nation changes before the very eyes. the folks who support donald trump they are scared of whats about to happen. so when he presses the buttons of immigration, he i...

He says why cant we get more norwegians. in 2043 america will be a majority minority country. what you have here is fear. you have fear in terms of the nation changes before the very eyes. the folks who support donald trump they are scared of whats about to happen. so when he presses the buttons of immigration, he is speaking to white fear, this is why were losing our r jobs. 1994 remember in california, i was just there for the naacp image awards they passed proposition 187, that was about fear...

And that really becomes a process of racial profiling that disproportionally targeted young black men as potential criminals. >> were out there. they have more foot posts out there. more police officers walking the beat. >> hi. how are you? >> if i would have put police on every corner in america, of course crime would go down, but the question is at what cost? for many black people it was a sense of community, of dignity, a sense of respect from law enforcement. >> with the majority of american...

>> opponents say the emotionally divisive measure plays on voter prejudice against latinos. but supporters say it will help staunch the flow of illegal immigrants to california. >> it has become the issue in the governor race. pete wilson is pinning his re-election hopes on anti-immigrant sentiment. >> were going to take back california for the working, tax-paying families of this state. >> the main undercurrent of all of the different measures that were being held from 1994 onward dealt with fe...

As racist? >> he is racist and sexist, as well. i think he is an embarrassment to the political process. that is my personal opinion. i think he is walking republican party down the path that former governor pete wilson did here in california. not one statewide republican official, this is a state where republican edge administration dropped below 30%. you can mark it back to proposition 187 that was rhetoric around that campaign in 1984 almost exactly the rhetoric that donald trump is spewing, ...