• Facebook
  • Google Plus
  • Instagram
  • RSS Feed
  • Twitter

Menu

Skip to content
  • About
  • Staff
  • Contact
  • Advertise
  • FAQ
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service
Header image

MyNewsLA.comLogo

Breaking news for greater Los Angeles and Orange County

Menu

Skip to content
  • Crime
  • Government
  • Business
  • Education
  • Sports
  • Hollywood
  • Life
  • OC
  • Phil Spector Dies at 81; Legendary Record Producer Was Serving Time for Murder
  • Garden Grove Police Lieutenant, 59, Dies from COVID-19 Complications
  • Orange County Reports 1,448 New COVID-19 Cases, 47 Deaths
  • LA County Reports 11,366 New COVID-19 Cases, 108 More Deaths
  • Firefighters Douse Flames in Dense Brush in Montecito Heights

Home » Education » This Article

L.A. Councilman Announces Rally for Immigrant Rights, Citing `Past Lessons’

Posted by Contributing Editor on October 3, 2019 in Education | Leave a response
Share this article:
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedinmail

City Councilman Gilbert Cedillo announced plans Thursday for an immigrant-rights rally to mark the 25th anniversary of California’s Proposition 187 being declared unconstitutional.

Twenty-five years ago, California voters approved the measure that would have barred immigrants living in the country illegally from accessing the state’s welfare system, non-emergency health care, public education and other services or benefits, but a federal court quickly ruled that the measure violated the U.S. Constitution.

The state initially appealed the ruling, but abandoned the challenge five years later.

Cedillo said the struggles immigrants faced with Prop. 187 echo the challenges they continue to face.

“Now we have something far more consequential at the national level,” Cedillo said.

A rally to support immigrant rights is planned by the Full Rights for Immigrants Coalition at 10 a.m. Oct. 19 at the corner of Lorena Street and Cesar Chavez Boulevard in East Los Angeles. Participants will then march to the corner of Spring and First streets in downtown Los Angeles.

“Our nation is in crisis, and it has been in crisis since Donald Trump announced his campaign,” Cedillo said. “Never in the history of our nation has a serious presidential candidate run a campaign explicitly attacking Mexicans, Mexican Americans, Latinos and immigrants.”

He said such attacks on immigrants echo the motivations behind Prop. 187, whose backers tried to “scapegoat immigrants and blame them for the ills of a poor economy and the ills of the state at that time.”

“It was a failure, it was evasive and it was backward-looking,” Cedillo said. “This is what’s taking place today on a much greater scale.”

Like this story? Don’t miss any breaking news from MyNewsLA.com. Sign up here for your free newsletter.

 

Trump has repeatedly assailed illegal immigration as a threat to national security and has lashed out at Los Angeles and so-called sanctuary cities for providing havens to people living in the country illegally, in defiance of federal immigration authorities. He made issue a centerpoint of his presidential campaign, anchored by his pledge to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, funded by Mexico.

Cedillo said the lessons of Prop. 187’s fate should not be forgotten.

“In large part, (California) is leading the resistance to Trump because of the popular response to 187,” Cedillo said.

According to the Pew Research Center, Los Angeles and Orange counties in 2017 were home to about 10% of the nation’s 11.1 million immigrants who are in the country illegally.

L.A. Councilman Announces Rally for Immigrant Rights, Citing `Past Lessons’ was last modified: October 3rd, 2019 by Contributing Editor

>> Want to read more stories like this? Get our Free Daily Newsletters Here!

Follow us:
Facebooktwitterrss
Posted in Education | Tagged `Past, announces, Citing, councilman, immigrant, L.A., lessons, rally, rights

Advertisement

Get The Latest News by Email!

Sign up here for our free newsletters. We’ll send you the latest headlines every morning and every weekday afternoon.

 
FORECAST FOR LOS ANGELES
54°
Clear
Feels like: 54°F
Wind: 0mph WSW
Humidity: 45%
Pressure: 29.86"Hg
UV index: 0
TueWedThu
70/55°F
77/52°F
72/54°F
Weather forecast Los Angeles, California ▸

Most Popular Today

  • Rape Victim Unconscious, But She’s Dead! Suspect Nabbed, Unclear When Victim Died In Pomona 3,000 views
  • Rosemead Woman Missing over a Week Located 2,800 views
  • Rescue Attempt Underway for Injured Mountain Biker 2,800 views
  • One Person Dies in Offroad Crash outside Riverside, One Injured 1,800 views
  • Dead Man Riddled With Bullets In Inglewood Was a Transient 1,600 views

©2021 CalNews Inc.

Menu

  • About
  • Staff
  • Contact
  • Advertise
  • FAQ
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service