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News this is All Things Considered I'm Elsa chain in Culver City California and I'm Mary Louise Kelly in Washington when Virginia Democrats swept control of the State House this week one factor some voter cited was gun control in May a mass shooting in Virginia Beach killed 12 people afterwards governor rough Northam a Democrat convened a special session of the state legislature he had hoped to pass gun control measures what he called common sense legislation but Republicans were in control they shelved the bills and ended the special session after just 90 minutes fast forward to this week I have one question for you Do you ever like the color blue. Do you like they can live below the 1st here to officially declare today November the 5th the night being that Virginia is the 1st really big congratulations. The Democrats will take control of the legislature in January governor Northam joins me now from the governor's office in Richmond governor Northam Welcome back to All Things Considered thanks so much for having me on you and I last spoke shortly after that awful day in Virginia Beach on the shooting you introduced 8 measures then we don't have time to tick through all of them but they have to do with background checks with Red Flag laws with bands will you be pushing for that same agenda this time or even more Absolutely I will start with those pieces of what I call commonsense gun legislation they have been proven to to save lives and that's what we want to do in Virginia so we will start with those pieces of legislation I'm sure there will be others that will be introduced I think they will be well vetted in both the House and the Senate and you know depending what gets to my desk are certainly consider those and if we feel that they'll make Virginia safer we'll move forward with them as well is your sense that any Republican minds have been changed on this. Do you have any hope of buy in from Republican lawmakers it's an interesting question and you know we've been we were inundated with commercials and mailers during the campaign and so some of the Republicans ran on common sense gun legislation so I look forward to seeing their response I think that they listen to voters I know they do and seeing how this election went on Tuesday I hope that they'll be at the table they should be this shouldn't be a partisan issue but I asked about one specific change you advocated before and it sounds like it's on your list an assault weapons ban Yes What is your plan for assault weapons currently owned by Virginians that are already out there will you confiscate them no ma'am that at this stage what we're looking at the ban in the sales of assault weapons will certainly you know again that these pieces of legislation but that would be what we would start with you would propose a ban on sales going forward absolutely Ok in terms of pushback that you received last time I'm curious about one other thing and whether it has changed there's been a lot of reporting on the n.r.a. Yeah and their leadership challenges and funding challenges is your sense that there is as much energy in the pro-gun rights lobby in your state as there was I don't know back in May or a year ago you know that certainly the advocacy is still out there but you know I think that the you know for Virginians to to experience what happened in our backyard. Day weekend you know I think the the influence of the n.r.a. Is specially in Virginia has has weakened and you know yes ma'am and I think we'll continue to see that but their pockets are deep and so is their influence particularly in a southern state like Virginia are you confident that you can overcome the power of that lobby and actually get 8. I says of of legislation through the state I see. Because the you know the Virginian spoke on on Tuesday and that's that's the most powerful thing out there is their vote in and they did that despite the money that the n.r.a. Poured into Virginia and can you get this done if you don't get any Republican buy in are the votes there yes ma'am they are I don't know of any Democrats that would be opposed to these 8 pieces of commonsense legislation that we we have proposed in the past and we will do again in January last thing as you speak to voters in Virginia what do they tell you what is your sense of to what extent the gun issue is mobilizing people at the polls this week it was a large factor and you know I saw that. The tragedy that we had in Virginia and then the Republican response when I brought them back to Richmond to spend less than 90 minutes talking about common sense gun legislation that that was a large factor and people have said enough is enough and you know we've been talking about these things but now we have the opportunity to take action and that's what we intend to do in January may I point out you still sound kind of bitter about that less than 90 minutes are you. Hand-over heart determined to reach across the aisle and try to get Republicans on board this time around. And I think probably folks know of my history I served in the United States Army I took care of wounded soldiers I'm also a pediatrician so I have seen what happens when toddlers pick up loaded firearms on the you know on the bit side table so I have heard enough well intended people say that our thoughts and prayers are with these families but now it's time for legislators for our leaders to come to Richmond and take votes and pass laws and that's what I expect will happen and in January Governor thank you thank you so much for having It's always good talking to you and your that's Ralph Northam he is the governor of Virginia. It was a proposal to deny undocumented immigrants access to public services like health care or education we're talking not about the latest policy from the Trump administration but a ballot initiative that was approved in California 25 years ago today he was called Prop 187 proponents of the measure made the argument that it was necessary to help the state's economic woes but of course not everyone agreed it was a measure that has had lasting political ramifications l.a. Times reporter Gustavo Ariano has been chronicling the saga of Prop 187 for the podcast Latino USA welcome but I said for having me so what was interesting about this whole story of Prop 107 is that California today is a saying to a state of course but it would have been really hard to see it be anything like acing to a state back in 1904 Can you just tell us why Prop 107 was so popular back then yeah we have to go back 25 years so immigration has been coming to California in unprecedented numbers this time from Latin America and Asia so a lot of people are upset with the cultural shifts and at the same time we're going through our worst recession since the Great Depression middle class. Voters they need escape go and so they find it with people who don't look like them who speak a different language and more importantly whose children are starting to go to these schools where they were legal or not really wasn't the question it was really hey we have a scapegoat let's try something but prop when 87 became kind of a galvanizing moment for a lot of Latin next activists and I want to play something from one of your episodes this is from Harare Correia he was just a teenager at the time and he remembers reacting to a slogan that Prop 187 advocates kept using Save our state save our city from what for me. I'm a threat to you. See this and I'm going try to go to school and try better myself like how my other thread and what Chris says in this episode is he wasn't political at all before Prop 27 but the cool campaign against it made him start caring about politics did you find that that was a common story talking to people it is the story of my generation of Latinos like Gen x. And maybe a little bit younger a little bit older literally we're I was a sophomore in high school in 1904 I was just your typical I thought typical American year yeah we're not too far apart you know I like baseball I like the you know in living color back in the day and all of a sudden people start attacking immigrants and it was personal for me and for all of us because my dad came to this country in the trunk of a Chevy he ended up becoming an American citizen we thought you know we had a 3 bedroom 2 bath swimming pool American dream and now all of a sudden we're the cause of California so we were been completely assimilated if not for this we saw this as an accidental threat so a lot of people went into politics when it advocacy I became a reporter because of when 87 is so interesting you were like you said you were just a sophomore but I remember reading that you while your classmates were protesting and walking out of school because a prop 187 you decided not to tell me why you decided not to honestly I was scared I was scared what I just you know I've never done something like this My parents are still immigrants I'm afraid that the police is get around me up they're going to go after my pair. And I also thought that it would do nothing that walking out what could us kids do to try to stop this $187.00 and how is that going to stop people from hating us and by the way I talk about in my pocket I was maybe one of 5 students left in 5th period history in that classroom and we're all looking at each other saying we made a mistake did it feel a little bit shameful I would not have barest for years own words and I got so I got so ashamed of that that I said you know what I'm never going to care about politics ever again I was against one of the summer courses medals undocumented I'm just going to you know become successful and buy up a house and in a gated community and never have to think about it again but it came back to me Little did you know now prop 187 it ended up getting challenge in the courts it was dead by 1909 you argue though that it still has a profound lasting impact on American politics tell me when when you were listening today to the debate over immigration what feels incredibly familiar to you about it the template demonizing undocumented people creating legislation that's going to target them specifically going after the children and politicians using this to win so in 1904 is not just a story of one of the 7 it's also the story of former California governor Pete Wilson who was running behind in his reelection campaign saw the illegal immigration was an issue that he could win on and he won it they exactly with what President Trump you know in his very 1st speech or memory said people coming across the border were raped this were drug smugglers and some of them I think are good people that's exactly the background as you know 2015 and more and I cannot overemphasize how much 187 yes it inspired a generation of next activists but also inspired a new generation of immigration restrictionists as beaten 70 comes from this from Arizona legislation in Pennsylvania and Oklahoma the Maine immigrant control group Federation for American Immigration Reform I interviewed the president Dan Stein and he said yeah with one of the 7 we learned what to do and what not to do Gustava Ariano reports for the l.a. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm else the Chuang And I'm Mary Louise Kelly the president of Turkey is due to visit the White House next week no shortage of thorny issues for him and President Trump to discuss the u.s. Military pullback from the Turkey Syria border the fighting that ensued when Turkey sent its troops across the border the dispute over whether to sell u.s. F. 35 fighter jets to Turkey the list goes on and then there's this what to do about the u.s. Nuclear weapons inside Turkey that's right 50 or so of them Steven Pifer a former u.s. Ambassador now a William Perry fellow a nuclear expert at Stanford University joins me now hi ambassador Hi Happy to be here glad to have you with us describe this current situation where exactly are these weapons who's guarding them today there are according to the Federation of American scientists about 150 American nuclear weapons in 5 countries in Europe and 50 of those are at the in China care Force Base in Turkey it's in southwestern Turkey about 60 miles from the Syrian border and so they are guarded what by NATO by a Turkish forces another weapons themselves are actually guarded by American personnel there's a special American munitions unit there and then of course the facility overall is guarded by the Turks and why does the u.s. Have nuclear weapons there what's the history here this goes back actually the 1950 s. Is that the United States has maintained nuclear weapons in your book for deterrence purposes but also to assure NATO allies of the American commitment to the defense the Federation of American Scientists says are located in Germany Belgium Netherlands Italy and Turkey but the relationship we have with Turkey now is a lot more difficult than with those other 4 countries so much so that you argue that the u.s. Should be thinking about how to get these weapons out and make the case for why they should no longer be entered Well 1st of all let me say that with 100 new American nuclear weapons based in 4 NATO countries those should suffice to serve both the purposes of deterrence and also the purposes of assuring allies. But given the way that the relationship with Turkey is going over the last several years Turkey's operate instead of buying an American air defense missile to buy something from Russia and that's made it difficult for us to consider selling them the f. 35 fighter plane you saw in the Turkish move militarily into Syria in a way that really took no account of American interests and there's a sort of volatility between President Trump who has several times tweeted that he is prepared to devastate the Turkish economy and in the Turkish president there go on and it just seems to me that this would be a better time to bring those weapons out that something that we don't need and it's time for them to come home couldn't one make the argument that maybe it's better to leave them be in the service of not further upsetting the Turks further destabilizing a relationship that as you note that is already shaky my argument then would be there ought to be better ways to improve this relationship and the presence of American nuclear weapons elsewhere in Europe allows us to extend the same nuclear deterrent umbrella over Turkey they just physically don't have to be at Incirlik What about the argument that the presence of u.s. Nuclear weapons maybe deters Turkey from trying to get its own nukes I would argue that the and extended American nuclear deterrent covers Turkey as a member of NATO but it doesn't require that nuclear weapons be physically present in Turkey but setting aside requirements if you will have seen President order one in September said that maybe it's time for Turkey to thi