AUTHORITIES IN SACRAMENTO HELD A FORUM REGARDING THEM ñ REGARDING
IMMIGRATION, AND AMONG THE AUTHORITIES THERE WAS SENTENCES
ñ SACRAMENTO COUNTY SHERIFF, AND ALSO AN I.C.E DIRECTOR.
A MAN WANTED TO SHARE HIS MIND DURING THIS FORUM, AND I
THOUGHT IT WAS REALLY INTERESTING.
HIS NAME IS BERNARD MARKS, AND HE EXLEY SURVIVED FIVE
YEARS IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN AUSCHWITZ.
LET'S TAKE A LOOK.
WHEN I WAS A LITTLE BOY IN POLAND, FOR NO OTHER REASON BUT
FOR BEING JEWISH I WAS HAULED OFF BY THE NAZIS.
AND FOR NO OTHER REASON, I WAS PICKED UP AND SEPARATED FROM MY
FAMILY, WHO WAS EXTERMINATED IN AUSCHWITZ, AND I AM A SURVIVOR
OF AUSCHWITZ.
I SPENT FIVE YEARS IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP ñ I SPENT 5
1/2 YEARS IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP.
FOR ONE REASON, AND ONE REASON ONLY: BECAUSE WE PICKED ON
PEOPLE, AND USED THE SHERIFF ñ AND YOU AS THE SHERIFF, WE
ELECTED AS SHERIFF OF THIS COUNTY.
IT'S ABOUT TIME YOU SHOW THE PEOPLE HERE, AND WHEN THIS
GENTLEMAN STANDS UP THERE AND HE SAYS HE DOESN'T DO IT FOR THE
PEOPLE [INAUDIBLE].
OBJECTED TO ICE COMING IN AND TAKING PEOPLE AWAY FROM THE
COURTS.
DON'T TELL ME THAT THIS IS ALLOWED.
HE STANDS UP HERE, MISTER JONES, DON'T FORGET, HISTORY IS
NOT ON YOUR SIDE.
WHAT A BADASS.
YES!
BERNARD MARKS, AMERICAN HERO.
THAT WAS AWESOME.
YOU KNOW, THEY ALWAYS SAY NEVER FORGET, RIGHT?
WELL, THERE'S BERNARD SAYING, NO NO, THAT'S NOT THEORETICAL, THAT
SO YOU CAN ACTUALLY APPLY IT WHEN THE TIME COMES, AND
UNFORTUNATELY THE TIME HAS COME HERE, AND SO THIS IS WHEN
YOU DON'T FORGET.
AND IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT PROTECTING YOUR OWN COMMUNITY,
IT'S ABOUT PROTECTING ALL COMMUNITIES, SO NOW WHEN THEY
ARE COMING FOR THE LATINOS, BERNARD IS THERE SAYING I'M
NOT ON MY WATCH.
IT COULD NOT BE MORE POWERFUL.
I KNOW, IT WAS INCREDIBLE, AND JUST FOR A MOMENT, SEPARATE THIS
FROM THE IMMIGRATION ISSUE, AND THE UNDERLYING MESSAGE IS A
MESSAGE THAT I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE FEEL RESONATES WITH THEM.
WE ELECTED YOU TO REPRESENT US, SO REPRESENT US.
RIGHT?
YES.
SO I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY FEEL
THAT.
REGARDLESS OF WHAT THIS PARTICULAR ISSUE IS ABOUT,
THEY FEEL IT.
WE KEEP ELECTING PEOPLE WHO TURN AROUND AND DO THE EXACT
OPPOSITE OF WHAT WE ELECTED THEM TO DO.
I LOVE THE FACT THAT HE WAS SO STRONG IN THE WAY THAT HE
PRESENTED THAT, AND BRAVE IN A WAY, IT WAS INSPIRING.
I DON'T MEAN THIS AS A PLUG FOR JUSTICE DEMOCRATS, BUT THE
REASON I'M BRINGING IT UP IS BECAUSE OF WHAT ANA SAID.
THE WAY WE CAME UP WITH THAT NAME IN THE FIRST PLACE WAS
BECAUSE, REPRESENT JUST US.
DON'T REPRESENT YOUR DONORS, DON'T REPRESENT ANYONE ELSE, YOU
ARE SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT US.
IT IS CALLED REPRESENTATIVES.
DON'T PRESENT US ANYMORE.
THAT IS A UNIVERSAL FRUSTRATION WE ARE FEELING IN AMERICA, AND
WHEN HE COMES TO THE SPECIFIC ISSUE HE IS EXACTLY RIGHT.
WE JUST COVERED THE STORY EARLIER THIS WEEK ABOUT,
NOW IT IS NOT JUST UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS.
1ST THEY SAID IT WAS JUST THE GUYS WHO HAD FELONIES ON THEIR
RECORD AND IT WAS JUST THE BAD GUYS.
THEN THEY STARTED GOING AFTER ALL OF THE UNDOCUMENTED
IMMIGRANTS, WHETHER THEY HAD COMMITTED CRIMINAL ACTS OR NOT,
AND THEY SAID BY DEFINITION YOU ARE CRIMINAL IF YOU ARE
UNDOCUMENTED.
THEN THEY STARTED DEPORTING, LIKE THEY REPORTED THAT WOMAN
WHO VOTED FOR TRUMP, THE CONSERVATIVE WOMAN, THEY
DEPORTED HER HUSBAND AWAY.
I THOUGHT YOU SAID YOU WERE ONLY GOING TO COME FOR THE BAD GUYS.
LISTEN TO BERNARD.
AND THEN FINALLY THIS PAST WEEK THEY STARTED GOING INTO LATINO
HOUSES THAT WERE DOCUMENTED, PERFECTLY LEGAL, AND A GUY
GOT SHOT.
THIS WAS IN CHICAGO.
ICE CAME IN, AND THEY WON'T SAY WHY THEY CAME AFTER THE GUY,
BECAUSE IT SO THAT HE IS JUST LATINO.
HE'S AN AMERICAN CITIZEN, BUT THEY SHOT HIM.
HE DID NOT HAVE A GUN, NOTHING, THEY SHOT HIM ANYWAY.
SO THIS IS BERNARD MARKS SEEING, NO WE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO
TARGET PEOPLE BASED ON WHO THEY ARE.
WE'VE GOT TO REMEMBER THAT HISTORY.
IT DOES NOT GET ANY MORE POWERFUL THAN A GUY WHO WAS IN
THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS OF AUSCHWITZ, AND WHO LOST HIS
FAMILY, COMING OUT AND SAYING THIS IS NOT AMERICA, THIS IS NOT
WHO WE ARE.