2018 CA Governor's race: on Immigration
Gavin Newsom:
National Guard for crime on border, not immigration
Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to withdraw National Guard troops from the state's southern border with Mexico, in defiance of the Trump administration's request for support from border states. About 100 of the 360 troops will remain deployed under California's
agreement with the federal government to focus specifically on combating transnational crime such as drug and gun smuggling. Specifically, they will be tasked with providing intelligence on transnational crime and assist with cargo dock operations and
searches of commercial trucks for contraband.Newsom's order will argue that the increase in Central American migrants crossing over the border is the result of a desire to escape violence and
repression fueled in part by the activities of transnational crime organizations. The California guard's resources are best spent tackling those activities, he plans to argue.
Source: CBS News on 2018 California gubernatorial race
Feb 11, 2019
Jerry Brown:
National Guard for crime on border, not immigration
Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to withdraw National Guard troops from the state's southern border with Mexico, in defiance of the Trump administration's request for support from border states.The original mission, approved by former
California Gov. Jerry Brown, was set to end March 31. The order Newsom plans will require the guard to immediately begin withdrawing troops but still give it until the end of March to do so. When Brown approved the mission, he said no California troops
would participate in immigration-related activities. He similarly ordered the troops to focus on combating transnational crime.
"This will not be a mission to build a new wall," Brown wrote at the time in a letter to
Trump administration officials. "It will not be a mission to round up women and children or detain people escaping violence and seeking a better life. And the California National Guard will not be enforcing federal immigration laws."
Source: CBS News on 2018 California gubernatorial race
Feb 11, 2019
Gavin Newsom:
Border wall is just rhetoric; celebrate diversity
[Six gubernatorial candidates from two parties participated in one debate]: Some of the widest differences--particularly between the Democrats and Republicans--were on immigration. The Republicans supported Trump's plan to build a wall on the
U.S.-Mexico border and the Democrats opposed it. The Democrats supported California's sanctuary state laws and the Republicans promised to overturn them shortly after taking office.Republican John Cox said "this border wall needs to be built.
It's not about grandmothers being pulled out of their homes. I don't want to live next door to MS-13" gang members. [MS-13 is an international criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles in the 1980s, with many members from El Salvador].
"This is the kind of rhetoric that has no place" in the debate, Democrat Gavin Newsom said. In California, "we don't tolerate diversity, we celebrate it."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle on 2018 California governor race
May 8, 2018
John Cox:
Border wall needs to be built, to keep out MS-13
[Six gubernatorial candidates from two parties participated in one debate]: Some of the widest differences--particularly between the Democrats and Republicans--were on immigration. The Republicans supported Trump's plan to build a wall on the
U.S.-Mexico border and the Democrats opposed it. The Democrats supported California's sanctuary state laws and the Republicans promised to overturn them shortly after taking office.Republican John Cox said "this border wall needs to be built.
It's not about grandmothers being pulled out of their homes. I don't want to live next door to MS-13" gang members. [MS-13 is an international criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles in the 1980s, with many members from El Salvador].
"This is the kind of rhetoric that has no place" in the debate, Democrat Gavin Newsom said. In California, "we don't tolerate diversity, we celebrate it."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle on 2018 California governor race
May 8, 2018
John Cox:
Sanctuary State law puts our families at risk
I'm the only conservative in the race who both supports the 2nd Amendment and is endorsed by the California Pro-Life Council. On my first day in office, I'll put an end to the Sanctuary State law that shelters illegal felons, and puts all of our
families at risk. Let's liberate California from the corrupting influence of special interest money, and reclaim the California Dream. I can't do this alone, but together, we can make California great again.
Source: IVP Network on 2018 California gubernatorial race
Mar 20, 2018
Delaine Eastin:
Supports Dreamers against deportation
Eastin expressed strong support for the young people currently shielded from deportation under the DACA program. Eastin has called for enhanced protections of all immigrants and for
Congress to immediately take action to protect young people known as Dreamers. "The President's decision to end DACA is devastating to some of our best and brightest young people," Eastin said in a statement.
Source: Los Angeles Times on 2018 California gubernatorial race
Sep 5, 2017
Travis Allen:
Sanctuary cities protect criminals
The majority of Californians from every ethnic group and political party clearly understand sanctuary policies for what they are:
SAFE SPACES FOR CRIMINAL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
Source: 2018 California Gubernatorial website JoinTravisAllen.com
Sep 1, 2017
Gavin Newsom:
Sanctuary cities build trust
Newsom supports San Francisco's status as a "sanctuary city" for undocumented immigrants, as long as they do not commit crimes.
This has built trust that leads to more schooling, vaccinations and other services that these residents might have hesitated to seek, he said.
Source: Modesto Bee on 2018 California gubernatorial race
Jul 26, 2017
Antonio Villaraigosa:
Latino heritage is part of our American heritage
Antonio Villaraigosa, in the first major policy address since opening his gubernatorial bid and Donald Trump's victory, skewered the Republican president's tough approach to immigrants while expressing an abiding pride for his own Mexican heritage. "We
are Americans first and foremost, but if anyone wants to make our Mexican heritage an issue, we will not shy from that. We embrace our Latino heritage as every bit a part of our American heritage," Villaraigosa said in the speech, rebuking
Trump's rhetoric and policies toward Latinos and offering a potential rallying point for the state's largest ethnic group.But at the gathering of the California Latino Economic Institute in Sacramento, the former
Los Angeles mayor stressed that he's never run as "the Latino" candidate or served as a "Latino" elected official. He used the 23-minute speech to lay the groundwork for a candidacy focused on extending economic opportunity to every corner of the state.
Source: Sacramento Bee on 2018 California gubernatorial race
Feb 1, 2017
John Chiang:
Muslim immigration ban forsakes American values
John Chiang and more than two dozen Asian American and Pacific Islanders expressed their outrage to President Donald Trump, accusing the Republican of issuing a refugee and travel ban they say forsakes American core valuesChiang, a Democratic
candidate for governor in 2018, said Trump's executive order banning travel for citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries is unconstitutional and "drips with cruel irony."
"As Americans, we have been taught to take pride in our diversity and
our constitutional right to religious freedom. As Asian Pacific Islander Americans, we will not stand idly by as you attempt to pervert this nation's melting pot into a boiling cauldron of intolerance, hate, and division,"
Chiang and the others wrote in the pointed and personal letter. "We also know what it is like to be labeled 'other,' to become victims of state-sponsored racism, bigotry, and xenophobia."
Source: Sacramento Bee on 2018 California gubernatorial race
Feb 1, 2017
John Chiang:
Chinese Exclusion Act wrong then; Muslim exclusion wrong now
Last weekend, Chiang, the son of immigrants from Taiwan, was among the politicians to join the throngs of Californians clustered at airports around the state to voice their disapproval with Trump's executive order banning travel for citizens from seven
Muslim-majority countries, which has been temporarily halted by judges.Chiang called for cancellation of the order, recalling historical black marks touching California like the Chinese Exclusion Act and Japanese internment. "We wrongly believed
these shameful ill-begotten episodes had been consigned to the junk pile of American history--and that the sins of our past, seared into our social memory, would forever inform and guide our better future," they wrote. "Yet, here we are.
It is happening again--in 2017--leaving us shocked, angry, and forced to wear the shroud of indignity you have tossed so casually over the nation. Our Muslim brethren are being mistreated because of their faith, dress, and customs. This is un-American."
Source: Sacramento Bee on 2018 California gubernatorial race
Feb 1, 2017
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