THE LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS VOWED NOT TO
FOLLOW TRUMP'S WISHES AND WILL NOT HELP THE POOR IMMIGRANTS
UNDER HIS TERM AS PRESIDENT.
THIS IS KEEPING WITH A
LONG-STANDING TRADITION ON THIS:
>>I WANT TO EXPLAIN TWO THINGS.
ONE, IF YOU THINK THIS IS SOME
SORT OF LIBERAL POSITION, DARRELL GATES WAS NO ONE'S
LIBERAL.
HE WAS OFTEN DECIDES FOR BEING WAY TOO OVER-THE-TOP
IN AGGRESSIVE POLICING.
IT IS JUST A MATTER OF PRACTICALITY.
WHAT LA POLICE HAVE DONE FOR A LONG TIME IS IF I HAVE A
CRIMINAL, WE ARE GOING TO TURN HIM INTO THE FEDERAL AUTHORITIES
SO HE CAN BE KICKED OUT OF THE COUNTRY.
IF I AM WORKING ON A
CASE, I DON'T WANT TO ASK FOR PEOPLE'S PAPERS, BECAUSE IF I DO
THAT, THEN THEY ARE NOT GOING TO WANT TO TALK TO ME.
THEN I CAN'T
SOLVE THE CASE AND THAT IS BAD POLICING.
NUMBER TWO, I BUSTED
SOMEONE ON A MINOR CHARGE, THEN I AM IN THE BUSINESS OF TRYING
TO FIGURE OUT WHO IS GOING TO GET KICKED OUT.
A LOT OF THOSE
MISDEMEANOR GUYS ROLL ON THE OTHER GUYS AND I DON'T WANT TO
ASK FOR THEIR PAPERS AND KICK THEM OUT OF THE COUNTRY.
AND IT
IS JUST A GIANT A LOT.
WE DIDN'T DO IT WHEN THE LAPD WAS SUPER CONSERVATIVE.
WE ARE NOT CHANGING POLICY FOR TRUCK, WE ARE JUST KEEPING
THE SAME POLICY.
>>HE TALKED ABOUT HOW IT IS PRACTICAL, BUT IT IS ALSO ABOUT
RELATIVITY.
THEY UNDERSTAND THE VALUE OF HAVING IMMIGRANTS AND
THEIR COUNTIES.
IF YOU NEED TO KNOW THE NUMBERS AS TO THE
IMMIGRANTS THAT ARE UNDOCUMENTED IN THIS COUNTRY, ONE OF THE 11
MILLION OF THE ONES THAT ARE UNDOCUMENTED HAPPEN TO BE IN LOS
ANGELES.
THIS SHERIFF UNDERSTAND THAT BY RELYING AND TRUSTING,
THAT SPEAKS VOLUMES.
THE TRUM FANS THAT VOTED TO TRY AND GET
RID OF THIS IMMIGRATION POLICY HAVE PROBABLY NEVER RUN INTO
EMIGRANTS BECAUSE THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND IT.
THEY JUST LIKE TO
TURN ON THEM BECAUSE IT IS THE EASY SCAPEGOAT.
IT IS THE SAME
THING THAT HAPPENED AND BREXIT.
THOSE THAT WERE VOTING TO LEAVE
THE EU, SOME OF THEM HAD NEVER RUN INTO AN IMMIGRANT IN THEIR
LIFE.
THEY WERE VOTING TO FOLLOW THE UNITED KINGDOM TO LEAVE
BECAUSE THEY FELT IMMIGRANTS WERE A PROBLEM.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT
STATISTICS, LIKE LENDING TO ABSOLVE MOST OF THE IMMIGRANTS
THAT COME INTO THE UK, THEY VOTED TO STAY BECAUSE THEY
UNDERSTOOD THEM.
THEY KNOW THAT THEY ARE NOT THESE VILLAINS BUT
EVERYONE MAKES THEM OUT TO BE.
THE COUNTIES THAT VOTED FOR THE
UNITED KINGDOM TO LEAVE BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT IMMIGRANTS WHERE
THE PROBLEM WAS ACTUALLY A COUNTY I PUT DOWN AN EXAMPLE
HERE.
THEY VOTED 73% TO LEAVE THE EUROPEAN UNION.
DO YOU KNOW
HOW MANY IMMIGRANTS THEY TOOK?
81.
THAT IS WHY IT IS SO AMAZING
TO ME THAT PEOPLE STILL THINK THAT THESE VOTERS WHO ARE VOTING
FOR DONALD TRUMP UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY PROVIDE.
THEY DON'T.
THIS
IS A GREAT EXAMPLE TO BRING UP THIS POINT BECAUSE THE SHERIFF
UNDERSTANDS THE SYSTEM AND THE VALUE THEY PROVIDE.
HE IS NOT
GOING TO ADOPT SOME POLICY.
>> REPUBLICANS HAVE THIS THOUGHT ON THEIR HEAD THAT IMMIGRANTS
JUST WANT TO DO THIS BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT THOSE GUYS TO
VOTE FOR THEM.
WELL, UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS CAN'T
VOTE.
AS FRANCIS POINTS OUT, THEY ARE WOVEN INTO THE FABRIC
OF LA.
IF COPS ALL OF A SUDDEN SAID OKAY, WE WANT TO SEE ALL
YOUR PAPERS, WE ARE NOT GOING TO BE LIKE EAST GERMANY WHERE WE
KICK THEM OUT.
NUMBER TWO, THEY WERE CARE.
THE REASON THEY ARE
HERE IS BECAUSE THEY HAVE JOBS.
A LOT OF PEOPLE GET MAD, BUT NOT
IF YOU LIVE IN LA.
IF YOU LIVE IN LA AND HE REMOVED 1 MILLION
PEOPLE WHO ARE WORKING HERE, YOU WOULD HAVE AN UNBELIEVABLE MESS
ON YOUR HANDS.
THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN ALL THE OTHER CITIZENS IN
LA WOULD BE LIKE WHAT HAPPENED?
PLEASE COME BACK.
IT IS NOT JUST
LA, WE SEE THIS ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
THEY DID THIS IN THE
SOUTH.
A COUPLE OF STATES ñ I THINK GEORGIA AND ALABAMA ñ AND
THEN THEY KICK THEM OUT AND IT TURNS OUT THEY WERE RUNNING ALL
THE FACTORIES.
AND THEIR ECONOMY STARTED TO PLUMMET AND THE CITIZENS
PANICKED.
AND THEN THEY SAID OKAY, WE ARE
GOING TO BRING THEM BACK.
>> BY THE WAY, THAT IS THE REAL REASON WHY WE HAVE IMMIGRATION
ISSUES BECAUSE ALL THOSE BUSINESSES WANT TO USE THEM AND
PAY VERY LOW WAGES.
IMMIGRATION REFORM ACTUALLY SOLVES THAT.
THAT WAY IT IS NOT A DARK MARK ANYMORE.
YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TO
PAY THEM A REAL WAGE.
INSTEAD OF THEM GETTING ABUSED AND LOWERING
WAGES FOR YOU GUYS, WE WOULD HAVE SOME SORT OF PARITY WHERE
EVERYONE'S WAGES COULD RISE.