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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- If you want to see how much immigration has shaped California, all you need to do is walk 300 feet down San Francisco's Clement Street. In one block between 4th and 5th Avenue, you will walk past a Burmese restaurant, a Mexican taquería, a Korean fusion eatery, and a Turkish restaurant. On the other side of the block are restaurants serving Chinese, Thai, Japanese and Vietnamese food. There's even a crepe place squeezed in. California has by far the most immigrants of any state in the country. Eleven million immigrants live in the Golden State, representing more than a qu...

Orange county is a new blue. and what happened in california was what prop-187. and now with donald trump's divisive anti-immigrant rhetoric, orange county went blue as well. >> thank you. all condolences to any who lost their lives in your district, and we definitely will be thinking about you guys. next up, the house leadership fight isn't just about nancy pelosi. i'll talk to a new democrat who is vying to join the new leadership team. vying to join w leadership team. ♪ do you want to take the path or the shortcut? not too fast. (vo) you do more than protect parks when you share the lov...

Appreciate it. thanks for joining us this hour. in 1994 the year i graduated from college in the great state of california where i'm from and where i went to college, the streets of california for a while looked like this. all over the state. massive, massive protests. the state frankly torn apart that year by something called prop 187. it was more or less the arizona papers please laws of the 1990s. proper 187 was a ballot initiative that said people who were in california illegally there as illegal immigrants could not use basic social services. they could not go to the hospital, for example...

Like a perversion of the truth that some people actually didn't get the joke like for example california's republican governor pete wilson who was a specific target of that satire. he did not get the jock. in an interview with "the new york times" columnist mr. wilson explained without irony that the goal of prop 187 was, in fact, self-deportati self-deportation. you will self-deport. he used the exact phrase used as satire without him woupt understanding it's satirical origins. the prop 187 episode was an important moment in republican politics. not just because it was literally a moment of s...