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[narrator] So, why here?

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Why America?

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[woman] My parents came
to the United States,

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like many immigrants,

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in search of a better life.

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This was…

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the land of opportunity.

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This was where an immigrant
could find peace and build a family,

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build a home.

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I was ten years old
when I came to America.

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For my parents,
it represented peace, opportunity

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and a bright future.

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My parents chose America
to ensure that I had the opportunities

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that they would not have
been afforded living in Palestine.

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My parents chose America
for the economy, for jobs…

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Because I can be an unapologetic
Muslim American woman in this country.

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My parents brought me to the US
in search of better opportunities

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and specifically, better education for me
and my younger brothers.

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[Diane]
I grew up with my parents just…

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loving this place.

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So, I just grew up thinking
I was the luckiest kid in the world

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because I had a chance to be here
and I had the opportunity to…

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be born here.

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[narrator] So has America lived up
to your expectations?

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[she scoffs]

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[poignant, dramatic music plays]

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The 14th Amendment is a promise.

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Protection, equality,
due process and liberty.

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It says this is a country where anyone
can build a better life for themselves

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and their families.

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It imagines an America
that is capable of change and growth.

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And it's a promise to anyone
on American soil, not just citizens.

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The authors of 14 chose a specific word,

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"person."

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Everyone on US soil
has their basic rights covered.

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This word, "person," is a reminder
of our common humanity.

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We are all human beings
deserving of empathy and dignity.

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The 14th Amendment protects all persons

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under the jurisdiction
of the United States

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and guarantees them due process
and the equal protection of laws.

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The amendment specifically uses the term
"person" rather than "citizen",

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an important distinction,

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because it means that those protections
apply to everyone,

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permanent residents, immigrants.

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Now that gap between who is a person
and who is a legal citizen,

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that's been a huge area of debate,

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and that's part of the battle.

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Who counts? And in what way?

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As we've seen time and time again,

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the gap between the words of 14
and what America delivers

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can be enormous.

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And that chasm between 14's promise
and America's actions

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often feels like an insurmountable abyss
to a certain group of people:

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immigrants.

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[gentle orchestral music plays]

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Immigrants are

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part and parcel of the United States.

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They do so many things for our country.

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[cheering]

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Immigration is one
of the strengths of the US.

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It's what helped build the country.
It brought youth to the country.

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We are part of the fabric of this country

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with our food,
our culture, our traditions.

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[Norquist]
Immigration brings talent, numbers,

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consumers, producers,
and makes us a stronger country.

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We are the people
who make this country better

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because we want to be part of its promise.

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[cheering]

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I wouldn't recognize this country

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if it wasn't this mix of cultures.

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It gives me joy
that we aren't all the same.

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[Norquist] People come
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legal citizens.

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They basically pledge allegiance
to the Constitution.

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The Constitution is the uniting factor
in the United States.

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I think people who look in the mirror
and see a patriot

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should realize that immigration
is a whole bunch of people going,

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"You're right.
You have a damn good country."

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That's--

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What more praise could you ask for?

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When the Founding Fathers
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they were not thinking about
including women, persons of color…

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It was a very narrow sense
of who could be a fully entitled

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citizen of the United States.

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However, the Civil War, emancipation
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radically transformed the possibilities

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of inclusion for citizenship
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The 14th Amendment's clause
around birthright citizenship

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is absolutely pivotal in moving us
from a white male settler nation

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into a future in which there
was a possibility for diversity

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within our democracy.

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["Sweet 16" by Cortes playing]

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[Howard] "This amendment
which I have offered is simply declaratory

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of what I regard
as the law of the land already,

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that every person born
within the limits of the United States

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and subject to their jurisdiction

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is by virtue of natural law
and national law

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a citizen of the United States."

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[narrator] Our American mosaic
of cultures and communities today

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owes a lot to the 14th Amendment's
Birthright Citizenship Clause,

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which lays out that anyone born here,
belongs here.

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It's the most inclusive language possible.

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And it is such a radical idea

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that, even 150 years later,

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people are still
getting riled up about it.

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Birthright citizenship--

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-Birthright citizenship--
-Birthright citizenship.

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-Birthright citizenship.
-Birthright citizenship.

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Birthright citizenship was always part
of the common law of the United States,

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but now it's under attack.

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The 14th Amendment is questionable.

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Does the 14th Amendment
stretch to the position

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where anybody born in America
is an American citizen?

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The text of the 14th Amendment is clear.

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We ought to change that policy.

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That incentivizes illegal immigration.

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It is the law of the land.
It is in the Constitution.

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Isn't the "anchor baby" law
destructive to the country?

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I think that, uh,
cheapens American citizenship.

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Hundreds of thousands of children
born to illegal immigrants

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are made automatic citizens
of the United States every year

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because of this crazy, lunatic policy
that we can end.

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This debate cuts to the core of our
deepest American anxieties.

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Who is America for?

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[gentle music playing]

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Fourteen is the first time our country

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truly grapples with the meaning
of citizenship.

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It's written primarily
to ensure Black Americans

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gain their rights after the Civil War,

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but before long, it challenges America's
threshold for inclusion even further

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by covering immigrants.

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Not just the European immigrants
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but also with a new group of immigrants
arriving in the West.

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[man]
Here it is, gentlemen.

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Pure California gold.

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Jupiter!

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Is there more to be had?

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[reporter] An epidemic hit the nation:
Gold Fever.

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[narrator] In 1848,
gold is discovered in California

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and the eyes of America turn to the West.

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During the Gold Rush in California,

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Chinese immigrants first began immigrating
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[narrator] Meanwhile, the government
teams up with titans of industry,

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deciding that they need the railroads
to span the entire country

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so we could further
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They need workers
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and the overwhelming majority
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[Hernandez] The role of Chinese immigrants

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in the construction
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was the spark
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And so the laborer is key
to the making of modern America.

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[Alina Das] The Chinese
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to build homes here,
to really establish lives here,

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just as every other group of people

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who had come into the United States
from abroad was also intending to do.

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Over the years,

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as the United States enters
into a fiscal and economic crisis

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in the late 19th century,

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anti-Chinese sentiment rises.

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[narrator] As the economy gets worse,

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many Americans find a target
for their fear and anger in the Chinese.

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[Das] There was this idea that in this
racial hierarchy in the United States

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that they were a race that could not
be assimilated into a white culture

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because they were just too different.

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You have people that are
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to pass legislation

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to prohibit Chinese immigrants
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[woman] "By not employing them,
you can drive them from the country."

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"Awake, arise, your work begins anew."

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"We will do it through bullets
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"We will drive these moon-eyed lepers
back by steamship and by sail."

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"The Chinese must go!"

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[man] The Chinese Massacre of 1871

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was the product of years
of rising anti-Chinese sentiment.

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It was one of the largest mass lynchings
in the history of the United States.

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♪ All the leaves are brown… ♪

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There was some kind of altercation,
a policeman was called.

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-The policeman called for backup.
-[gunshot]

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[screaming]

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A white rancher showed up,
chased somebody, got shot.

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[gunshot]

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And then, a rumor started to spread

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that Chinese people
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and about 500 people showed up,

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and they surrounded Chinatown.

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♪ California dreamin' ♪

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[man] "Dispatch says 100 men are
armed with Henry rifles

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firing at intervals
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firing into Chinese houses at random
and from rooftops."

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[gunshots]

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"The sheriff and civil authorities
have given up trying to restrain the mob."

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"This will be a lesson to the Chinese
not to resist the law officers."

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♪ Somebody help me now ♪

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The Chinese Massacre
is a stain on our history

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occurring just a few years
after the 14th is ratified,

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it goes against the very promise
of America.

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It is a horrible legacy that many of us
don't even know happened,

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or what happened next.

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[woman] The Chinese Exclusion Act
barred from entry all Chinese laborers

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and it barred all Chinese,
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from naturalized citizenship.

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And that law was widely celebrated.

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People were glad
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actually taking immigration
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And not only are we going to have federal
immigration law for the first time,

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but the purpose
was an explicitly racist purpose.

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The exclusion laws led to horrible things.

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It encouraged violence against Chinese.

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It separated families.

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It marginalized Chinese to menial jobs.

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[Das] But this became a story
of incredible resilience

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where you see Chinese communities
becoming incredibly organized

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and they did everything in their power
to speak out against these racist laws.

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[man] "We are here to plead for
the 150,000 Chinese residents

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of the United States
whose liberties are threatened."

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"They will be shipped like cattle
out of their beloved homes

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from the country which they have been
taught to love as their own

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and dumped upon a foreign shore."

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"This monstrous new act astonished us."

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"It more than astonished us,
because a measure too cruel, too inhuman,

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was so willingly and hastily
adopted by the American Congress

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and signed by a Christian president
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the land of liberty and home
of the oppressed of all nations."

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[Ngai] The Chinese sued
that this violated their rights

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under the 14th Amendment

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and they were very savvy
about a legal strategy

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to push back against
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Many of these cases were lost.

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But Won Kim Ark and Yick Wo v. Hopkins
are the two cases where Chinese prevailed.

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[man] The Yick Wo principle says
the Equal Protection Clause

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covers non-citizens as well as citizens.

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If you are here,
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they have to give you certain
due process rights.

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You are entitled to a hearing,
you are entitled to a process of appeals

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and make your case that you ought to be
allowed to stay. That's remarkable.

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[Ngai] And Wong Kim Ark establishes
this principle of Birthright Citizenship.

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So, the 14th Amendment
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to protect not only the rights of people
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it also was there to protect the rights
of the children of immigrants

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regardless of their race.

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The Chinese litigation
was really important

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because it really wrote the basis

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for our laws regarding
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that applies across the board,
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[Arulanantham] There's a number of cases
the Supreme Court decides.

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Perhaps the biggest loss
is Chae Chan Ping.

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That's a case
that upholds an extremely unfair

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Chinese Exclusion Act statute.

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[Epps] Chae Chan Ping was Chinese-born,
living legally in the United States.

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He lived in San Francisco
and he wanted to return to China,

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and under the law as it then existed,

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he could return to China
as long as before he went

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he obtained a certificate
from the government

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that he had lived permanently
in the United States

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and had a permanent residence.

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While he was in China,
pressure grew for even stronger action

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against Chinese people
in the United States,

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and while he was literally sailing back
in a ship from Hong Kong,

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the United States Congress changed the law

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and said even if you have the certificate,

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you cannot be allowed into the US.

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And I think four days
after this law took effect

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he arrived in the Port of San Francisco.

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He presented his certificate
and the immigration inspector said

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that the United States
was not honoring those certificates.

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The government itself, under its own laws,
promises you that you can come back.

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The government ought to be required
to keep that promise,

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but he was kept in immigrant detention

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for a long period of time
while this case was pending.

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[tense music playing]

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THERE ARE TENS OF THOUSANDS
OF POEMS ON THESE WALLS.

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THEY ARE ALL CRIES OF SUFFERING
AND SADNESS.

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THE DAY I AM RID OF THIS PRISON
AND BECOME SUCCESSFUL

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[Epps] When you come forward and begin to
look at the period of Chinese Exclusion,

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this new dialogue enters immigration law.

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What the Court starts to say is,
"We think of immigration as like war."

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So, the idea was that there was going
to be this flood of immigrants from China,

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and they were going to take America
away from us.

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And that, just as in wartime,

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the government can do whatever it needs
to do in order to defend the country.

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What the Supreme Court did was,
they created this clever argument

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to say it's about national security

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and therefore it was outside of
the protection of the 14th Amendment.

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"To preserve its independence

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and give security against
foreign aggression and encroachment

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is the highest duty of every nation."

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"It matters not in what form
such aggression and encroachment come,

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whether from a foreign nation

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or from vast hordes of its people
crowding in upon us."

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[Epps] It's not at all clear why,
all of a sudden,

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we're supposed to be terrified
of immigrants from Asia,

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but the Court goes down that rabbit hole,

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and we've been in it ever since.

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[shouting]

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-[beeping]
-[explosion]

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[screaming]

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[narrator] The Chinese Exclusion laws
don't last a few years

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or even a few decades.

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This total ban on Chinese immigrants
lasts until 1943.

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Sixty-one years.

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These are the consequences
of the Supreme Court

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putting fear above the Constitution.

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Fear is a tool the opponents of 14's
inclusive language use over and over

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to discriminate against anyone
deemed foreign.

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Now, I mean,
if we were going to keep it real,

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other than the Native Americans,

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everyone on this land
is descended from someone foreign.

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The Chae Chan Ping ruling sets a precedent

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for dehumanizing marginalized
immigrant groups,

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treating them not as persons

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but as others who don't
deserve the rights citizens enjoy.

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And it's a playbook we'll see
used across American history.

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♪ Give me your tired ♪

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♪ Your poor ♪

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♪ Your huddled masses ♪

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♪ Yearning to be free ♪

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The 1920s reflected paradox.

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On the one hand, easy tolerance
of flappers and jazz,

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on the other hand, intolerance
and distrust of foreigners.

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The nation of immigrants closed its door
with strict anti-immigration laws,

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but it would be increasingly difficult
to shut out the rest of the world.

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If you fast forward this period
of the 1920s,

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this is the same time as Jim Crow

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where you're seeing the reassertion
of racial hierarchy throughout the country

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and it's that same impulse,
that same Jim Crow impulse

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to hoard citizenship and membership
for the white elite.

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[Das] You see the advent
of national origins quotas,

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quotas that were designed to prevent
people from outside of Western Europe

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from coming to the United States.

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The numbers of visas for new immigrants
were limited

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and then they were allotted in a way
that ensured that immigration

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would be white for the foreseeable future.

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I ask you in the name of patriotism

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which loves America,
to carry it on to victory.

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[reporter] The voice of twisted patriotism

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echoes an age-old fear
that lay deep in the American past

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that a nation carved out of the wilderness

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would be lost forever to strangers.

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I ask you if you will rise in your places

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and pledge with me to restore America
to the Americans.

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[cheering]

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[reporter] Who were these privileged men

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who felt that they were entitled
to call the land their own?

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[narrator] The strategies used
to resist immigration are not new.

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They're the same in the 1880s
as they are in the 1930s

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or in the 2020s,

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emerging whenever people stop seeing
14's inclusive language as a promise

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and see it instead as a threat.

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The cultural demands of white supremacy

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is that we be a monoracial,
singular identity.

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That really runs against another thread
of white supremacy,

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which is a more economic thread
of white supremacy,

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saying that, well, it's wonderful
to have a white-only community,

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but who is going to do
the hard work in this community?

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Who's gonna pick all the crops?
Who's gonna plant all the crops?

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Who's gonna take care of the babies?
Who's gonna wash the floors?

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And so we have economic demands
for white supremacy, as well,

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that we have a non-white, laboring,
low-wage and, in best case scenario,

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removable or deportable population
to do the labor.

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So, between 1920 and 1930,

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about one million Mexican immigrants
enter the United States.

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Employers had a rapacious need
for more and more Mexican workers

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to work in the fields and on the railroads
across the American West.

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Once the Great Depression begins,

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it becomes very clear
that Mexican immigrants

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are unwanted as permanent citizens
of the country.

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The cycles of immigration
are dictated largely by economics

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and the law tries to catch up.

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The law tries to come up
with some rationalization

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of why it's okay to bring Chinese in
to work on the railroads

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and then throw them out.

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You see the same thing
with labor from Mexico,

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which is being brought in and encouraged

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and then later,
as the economic cycle changes,

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we have mass deportation.

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[Hernandez] During the 1930s,
more than 400,000 Mexican immigrants

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were forced to participate
in what's called the Repatriation Program.

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Mexican workers became scapegoats

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by those who thought

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that they were taking away jobs
from Americans.

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[man] "They say that this
deportation campaign

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is to secure the jobs
of North American citizens."

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"It's a trick."

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"It isn't true."

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"It's really nothing more than
a racist attack against all Mexicans."

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"We are neither illegals,

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nor undesirables."

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The idea that things are zero sum
is the number one fallacy in economics.

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If you're getting paid for something,
by definition,

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you are creating more wealth and income
than you're getting,

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because some of it goes to who hired you.

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You are adding to the net wealth
of the country, not taking anything away.

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[Epps] As many as 60% of them
were actually US citizens.

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[dramatic music playing]

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[girl] "When we got to the station it must
have been dawn because it was dark."

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"We were crying. Who wouldn't be crying?"

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"Many people were crying."

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"We were going to an unknown place."

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"What did I know about Mexico?"

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"My dad was very proud
that we were American citizens."

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00:25:22,854 --> 00:25:25,694
"He always told people
that we were American citizens

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and that we didn't belong
in that country."

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00:25:27,859 --> 00:25:30,989
"I started going to school,
and girls didn't want me there."

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00:25:31,071 --> 00:25:34,701
"They said, 'Go back to your own country.
You don't belong here.'"

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00:25:35,408 --> 00:25:37,988
"A lot of people there
discriminated against us

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because we were American citizens."

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00:25:40,497 --> 00:25:41,577
"Isn't it strange?"

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00:25:42,082 --> 00:25:45,592
"Here, the Anglos discriminate against us
because we're Mexicans."

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"So really, where do we belong?"

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"Tell me, where do Anglos belong?"

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"They belong in Europe, don't they?"

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[Hernandez] Operation Wetback
was another traumatic campaign

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against Mexican immigrants

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putting them in detention,

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putting them on boats,
on trains, on planes,

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and deporting them back to Mexico.

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This fits very well within the anxieties
and the politics of the moment.

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Of course, 1954 is the same year
as the Brown v. Board campaign.

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Many people were very concerned about

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the changing demographics of the country,

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and Operation Wetback
was one of the responses.

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[Rahman] If we think about a case
like Chae Chan Ping,

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it's a loaded gun
that's kind of lying there in wait.

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Even though there are nominal protections
under the 14th Amendment

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of due process and equal protection,

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in the Mexican Repatriation
or Operation Wetback,

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that still takes a backseat
to fears about national security

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fears about white supremacist ideal
of white identity.

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Why are you here in this country to work?

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Well, I work to make a better life,

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uh, over there, in my country.

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I work here because I can take care
of my family a whole lot better.

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[Epps] Mexican labor is just
treated as this… this object

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to be used when needed and then simply
eliminated by mass deportation

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of a kind that really seems
to be a kind of crime against humanity.

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America is rejecting the 14th,

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the idea that we are all people,

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and embracing "othering"
as immigration policy.

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And few people in power have
embodied this ideology

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more fiercely than Harlon Carter,

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the architect of Operation Wetback.

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Harlon B. Carter was the head
of the US Border Patrol

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in the US/Mexico border region.

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And what's really important to know
about Harlon B. Carter

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is that in 1931, when he was a teenager,

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he came home one day from school
and his mother was very upset.

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She said that some Mexican kids had been
hanging out out front

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and she was concerned about them
and a possible car theft.

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So, Harlon Carter picked up his shotgun
and went out looking for the boys.

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He found the boys by a local watering hole

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and he said, "You have to come back
to my house and talk to my mother

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so she can figure out what's going on."

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One of the young boys in that group
was Ramon Casiano.

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And Ramon Casiano refused to go home
with Harlon Carter.

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So, Harlon Carter picked up his shotgun
and leveled it at Ramon Casiano's chest.

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When Ramon laughed and pushed aside
the barrel of the shotgun…

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[he grunts]

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[gunshot]

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[Hernandez] …Harlon Carter
pulled the trigger and shot Ramon dead

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on the streets of Laredo.

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00:29:09,330 --> 00:29:12,290
Harlon was tried for the murder.
He was convicted of it.

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It was later overturned on a technicality.

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00:29:15,462 --> 00:29:19,472
But a couple years later, Harlon Carter
joins the United States Border Patrol,

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comes up in the ranks of the organization,

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and by the early 1950s,

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he's the head of the US Border Patrol
in the US/Mexico border region

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and he is the mastermind
of Operation Wetback

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and its traumas of 1954.

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00:29:34,522 --> 00:29:37,402
Harlon Carter later
leaves US Border Patrol

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and becomes the head
of the National Rifle Association.

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And what Harlon Carter does at the NRA
is of critical importance.

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Harlon Carter takes the NRA
from being a gun enthusiast organization,

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a hunters' organization,

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into a massive political organization
and association

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00:29:58,046 --> 00:30:01,796
that's about protecting
gun rights at all costs.

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00:30:02,592 --> 00:30:05,642
They use their media
to assassinate real news.

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00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:09,850
They use their schools to teach children
that their president is another Hitler.

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00:30:09,933 --> 00:30:14,273
They use their movie stars and singers
and comedy shows and award shows

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00:30:14,354 --> 00:30:17,024
to repeat their narrative
over and over again,

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00:30:17,106 --> 00:30:20,986
and then they use their ex-president
to endorse the resistance.

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All to make them march, make them protest,

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00:30:24,155 --> 00:30:28,325
make them scream racism and sexism
and xenophobia and homophobia,

483
00:30:28,409 --> 00:30:32,999
to smash windows, burn cars,
shut down interstates and airports,

484
00:30:33,081 --> 00:30:34,961
bully and terrorize the law-abiding

485
00:30:35,041 --> 00:30:39,211
until the only option left
is for the police to do their jobs

486
00:30:39,295 --> 00:30:41,085
and stop the madness.

487
00:30:41,172 --> 00:30:45,302
And when that happens, they'll use it
as an excuse for their outrage.

488
00:30:45,385 --> 00:30:47,425
The only way we stop this,

489
00:30:47,512 --> 00:30:51,142
the only way we save our country
and our freedom

490
00:30:51,224 --> 00:30:56,104
is to fight this violence of lies
with the clenched fist of truth.

491
00:30:56,688 --> 00:30:59,568
I'm the National Rifle Association
of America,

492
00:30:59,649 --> 00:31:02,239
and I'm freedom's safest place.

493
00:31:06,406 --> 00:31:09,486
Fear-based messaging
is used to unify a group

494
00:31:09,576 --> 00:31:12,496
against a perceived dangerous
and scary enemy.

495
00:31:13,538 --> 00:31:17,998
And one of the words these messages
employ over and over is "criminal."

496
00:31:23,631 --> 00:31:24,921
[Das] From the beginning,

497
00:31:25,008 --> 00:31:29,928
our society has chosen what to criminalize
and how to criminalize it

498
00:31:30,013 --> 00:31:31,013
based on race.

499
00:31:31,097 --> 00:31:34,927
Immigrants have always been targets
for criminalization.

500
00:31:36,019 --> 00:31:39,479
One of the first laws that really
targeted drugs

501
00:31:39,564 --> 00:31:44,324
was an 1875 San Francisco ordinance
against opium dens

502
00:31:44,402 --> 00:31:47,362
because they were
associated with the Chinese.

503
00:31:47,447 --> 00:31:48,777
You see this with cannabis.

504
00:31:50,575 --> 00:31:54,075
Cannabis was discussed
as a new potential medicinal remedy

505
00:31:54,162 --> 00:31:56,662
that had these other potential benefits,

506
00:31:56,748 --> 00:31:59,498
but when it became
associated with Mexicans,

507
00:31:59,584 --> 00:32:01,924
and we started calling it "marijuana",

508
00:32:02,003 --> 00:32:05,213
that's when you start seeing,
again, federal legislation

509
00:32:05,298 --> 00:32:07,678
that criminalizes marijuana use.

510
00:32:08,927 --> 00:32:12,637
Seeing the way that people of color
are demonized,

511
00:32:12,722 --> 00:32:18,392
and how calling someone a criminal
and then calling them "alien."

512
00:32:18,478 --> 00:32:20,608
When you combine those terms together,

513
00:32:20,688 --> 00:32:24,148
you're creating a class of people
who are denied the rights

514
00:32:24,233 --> 00:32:27,453
that the 14th Amendment
was designed to protect.

515
00:32:31,824 --> 00:32:34,954
Throughout our nation's history,
we have seen interplay

516
00:32:35,036 --> 00:32:37,616
between discrimination
against Black people

517
00:32:37,705 --> 00:32:40,285
and discrimination against immigrants.

518
00:32:42,752 --> 00:32:46,462
[Hernandez] As Jim Crow was legitimized
across United States,

519
00:32:46,547 --> 00:32:48,167
you have a parallel system

520
00:32:48,257 --> 00:32:53,007
and in the American West Jim Crow
becomes Juan Crow.

521
00:32:53,096 --> 00:32:55,926
[intense music playing]

522
00:33:18,746 --> 00:33:24,536
Looking at the future, that history
very much plays out in the 1990s

523
00:33:24,627 --> 00:33:26,707
with respect to mass incarceration.

524
00:33:32,010 --> 00:33:34,890
The worst laws that we've
seen in immigration

525
00:33:34,971 --> 00:33:37,221
since the national origins quotas

526
00:33:37,306 --> 00:33:42,556
are the 1996 laws that were
signed by President Bill Clinton.

527
00:33:43,980 --> 00:33:47,780
All Americans, not only in the states
most heavily affected

528
00:33:47,859 --> 00:33:50,699
but in every place in this country,
are rightly disturbed

529
00:33:50,778 --> 00:33:55,278
by the large numbers
of illegal aliens entering our country.

530
00:33:55,366 --> 00:33:57,076
-[indistinct shouting]
-The jobs they hold

531
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,790
might otherwise be held
by citizens or legal immigrants,

532
00:33:59,871 --> 00:34:03,331
the public service they use
impose burdens on our taxpayers.

533
00:34:04,042 --> 00:34:08,212
That's why our Administration has moved
aggressively to secure our borders more

534
00:34:08,296 --> 00:34:10,716
by hiring a record number
of new border guards,

535
00:34:10,798 --> 00:34:13,968
by deporting twice as many
criminal aliens as ever before.

536
00:34:14,469 --> 00:34:18,219
That law mandates the jailing
of immigrants

537
00:34:18,306 --> 00:34:21,976
in the refugee context, people coming here
and trying to obtain asylum

538
00:34:22,060 --> 00:34:25,440
and, of course, also in the interior,
people convicted of crimes.

539
00:34:25,521 --> 00:34:28,321
It does not matter
if you have children here,

540
00:34:28,399 --> 00:34:31,239
if you have lived here
and made one mistake in your life.

541
00:34:31,319 --> 00:34:34,569
None of that matters. No discretion.
You have to be deported.

542
00:34:34,655 --> 00:34:38,365
And you have to be jailed
while your deportation case goes forward.

543
00:34:40,161 --> 00:34:45,541
No person can be deprived of their
liberty without due process of law.

544
00:34:45,625 --> 00:34:48,085
That's the word in the 14th Amendment,

545
00:34:48,169 --> 00:34:50,459
and yet we're sending people to prison

546
00:34:50,546 --> 00:34:52,876
and then banishing them from the country

547
00:34:52,965 --> 00:34:54,965
without giving them lawyers,

548
00:34:55,051 --> 00:34:57,641
without any of the process
that's afforded to people

549
00:34:57,720 --> 00:35:00,310
who are sent to jail
in the criminal system.

550
00:35:01,432 --> 00:35:06,982
[Das] Because of our fear, we've become
used to the idea of deportation

551
00:35:07,063 --> 00:35:11,483
and it has justified the rise
of the deportation machinery

552
00:35:11,567 --> 00:35:12,687
that we have today.

553
00:35:18,116 --> 00:35:20,576
One of the most effective ways

554
00:35:20,660 --> 00:35:26,370
that human beings justify and rationalize
atrocities against other people

555
00:35:26,457 --> 00:35:29,707
is by refusing to see them as a person.

556
00:35:30,628 --> 00:35:32,878
We call them a lot of things,

557
00:35:33,548 --> 00:35:35,878
anything to avoid what they are,

558
00:35:36,634 --> 00:35:38,224
a human being.

559
00:35:38,302 --> 00:35:39,142
[voice 1] Thugs.

560
00:35:39,220 --> 00:35:41,310
-[voice 2] Drug smugglers.
-Super predators.

561
00:35:41,389 --> 00:35:42,719
[voice 4] Immigrant invaders.

562
00:35:42,807 --> 00:35:45,097
-[voice 5] Gang members.
-[voice 6] Illegal aliens.

563
00:35:45,184 --> 00:35:46,854
-[voice 7] Rapists.
-[voice 8] Bitch.

564
00:35:46,936 --> 00:35:48,856
-[voice 9] Trannie.
-[voice 10] Radical.

565
00:35:48,938 --> 00:35:49,808
[voice 11] Faggot.

566
00:35:49,897 --> 00:35:51,437
-[voice 12] Spics.
-[voice 13] Kike.

567
00:35:51,524 --> 00:35:53,904
[voice 14] Terrorist!
Terrorist! Terrorist!

568
00:35:53,985 --> 00:35:54,935
[voice 15] Nigger!

569
00:36:03,286 --> 00:36:06,406
[brooding, crumbling noise echoing]

570
00:36:17,049 --> 00:36:20,049
One by one, we are
finding the gang members,

571
00:36:20,136 --> 00:36:21,506
the drug dealers

572
00:36:21,596 --> 00:36:24,596
and the criminals who prey on our people.

573
00:36:24,682 --> 00:36:26,932
We are throwing them out of the country

574
00:36:27,018 --> 00:36:30,478
or we're putting them
the hell, fast, in jail.

575
00:36:30,563 --> 00:36:31,653
[cheering]

576
00:36:31,731 --> 00:36:34,441
The 14th Amendment
says if you're born here,

577
00:36:34,525 --> 00:36:36,935
you're an American
and you can't kick Americans out.

578
00:36:37,028 --> 00:36:39,908
And then if you wanted
to deport the people already here,

579
00:36:39,989 --> 00:36:42,659
each and every one are
entitled to due process.

580
00:36:42,742 --> 00:36:45,412
Bill, I think you're wrong
about the 14th Amendment.

581
00:36:45,494 --> 00:36:49,584
-[man 1] This is a flat-out invasion.
-[man 2] Illegal invasion at our border…

582
00:36:49,665 --> 00:36:52,075
-[man 3] It's an invasion.
-[man 4] It is an invasion.

583
00:36:52,168 --> 00:36:54,628
[Trump] An invasion of drugs
and criminals and people.

584
00:36:54,712 --> 00:36:57,092
[sobbing] Government,
please put your heart.

585
00:36:57,173 --> 00:37:03,053
Let my parent be free
with everybody else. Please, don't leave.

586
00:37:03,721 --> 00:37:09,061
The rights of families to be together
are often denied to people of color,

587
00:37:09,769 --> 00:37:12,229
certainly to slaves.

588
00:37:12,313 --> 00:37:13,943
The Chinese Exclusion laws.

589
00:37:14,023 --> 00:37:16,783
Native American children were taken away

590
00:37:16,859 --> 00:37:18,689
and then put into boarding schools.

591
00:37:18,778 --> 00:37:21,858
The incarceration of Japanese
and Japanese Americans,

592
00:37:21,948 --> 00:37:23,818
even the Muslim ban.

593
00:37:23,908 --> 00:37:27,868
There's undoubtedly
a very strong moral connection,

594
00:37:27,954 --> 00:37:29,624
if not a legal connection,

595
00:37:29,705 --> 00:37:31,955
between the history of slavery
in this country

596
00:37:32,041 --> 00:37:34,961
and today's failure in our law

597
00:37:35,044 --> 00:37:38,304
to recognize that so many
deportation cases

598
00:37:38,381 --> 00:37:40,801
are also cases of family separation.

599
00:37:40,883 --> 00:37:44,933
And because it takes a particular kind
of dehumanization

600
00:37:45,638 --> 00:37:49,928
to look at people
through the lens of the law

601
00:37:50,434 --> 00:37:54,364
and ignore the fact
that they are part of a family.

602
00:37:58,859 --> 00:38:02,989
[Cuison-Villazor] The Trump Administration
use what's called Zero Tolerance policy.

603
00:38:03,072 --> 00:38:07,622
Zero Tolerance refers to the policy
of separating families

604
00:38:07,702 --> 00:38:12,042
as a way of deterring other families
from coming to the United States.

605
00:38:14,542 --> 00:38:19,672
It is the State using something
which is so punitive

606
00:38:19,755 --> 00:38:23,755
as to be absolutely… corrosive.

607
00:38:24,260 --> 00:38:28,350
So, when the State, a state that's
supposed to be a civil society,

608
00:38:28,431 --> 00:38:32,771
decides that they will use children
as weapons,

609
00:38:33,352 --> 00:38:36,192
you can't pretend to have any rights
in that context.

610
00:38:36,272 --> 00:38:38,232
It is, in fact, torture.

611
00:38:38,816 --> 00:38:39,646
[child cries]

612
00:38:39,734 --> 00:38:42,154
I want to go to the jail.

613
00:38:43,279 --> 00:38:44,409
You want to go there?

614
00:38:46,198 --> 00:38:48,868
You don't love me.

615
00:38:50,870 --> 00:38:52,750
Who told you I don't love you?

616
00:38:54,999 --> 00:38:58,289
You're not my mom anymore.

617
00:38:58,377 --> 00:39:01,917
Someone who comes to our country
because they couldn't come legally…

618
00:39:02,006 --> 00:39:02,836
Jenri?

619
00:39:02,923 --> 00:39:06,683
they come to our country because
a dad who loved their children

620
00:39:06,761 --> 00:39:09,891
was worried that their children
didn't have food on the table.

621
00:39:09,972 --> 00:39:12,772
And they crossed the border
'cause they had no other means to work

622
00:39:13,392 --> 00:39:15,352
to be able to provide for their family.

623
00:39:15,436 --> 00:39:19,146
Yes, they broke the law,
but it's not a felony.

624
00:39:19,690 --> 00:39:22,150
It's kind of a… It's, it's a…

625
00:39:22,234 --> 00:39:25,454
It's an act of love.
It's an act of commitment to your family.

626
00:39:27,698 --> 00:39:29,158
[Sarsour]
I've been to the border,

627
00:39:29,241 --> 00:39:32,121
with families separated
from their children by our government,

628
00:39:32,703 --> 00:39:36,753
and what I tell people all the time is,
if you were safe in your home country,

629
00:39:36,832 --> 00:39:40,252
if you thrived, had everything you needed
to protect yourself and your children,

630
00:39:40,336 --> 00:39:41,666
you wouldn't leave your home.

631
00:39:41,754 --> 00:39:44,094
Think about
what you would risk for your children.

632
00:39:44,173 --> 00:39:46,843
Whatever answer you come up with
is the same answer

633
00:39:46,926 --> 00:39:49,966
that folks from Central America
and other parts of the world

634
00:39:50,054 --> 00:39:51,934
risk it all to bring their children here

635
00:39:52,014 --> 00:39:55,394
to give them better opportunities
so that their children can thrive

636
00:39:55,476 --> 00:39:57,846
and be embraced
and be loved for who they are.

637
00:39:58,354 --> 00:40:00,864
[poignant music playing]

638
00:40:00,940 --> 00:40:02,320
[Guerrero] One moment.

639
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:05,780
That's all it takes for your entire world
to split apart.

640
00:40:06,654 --> 00:40:09,624
For me, that moment came when I was 14.

641
00:40:10,825 --> 00:40:12,275
I returned home from school

642
00:40:12,368 --> 00:40:14,908
to discover that my hard-working
immigrant parents

643
00:40:14,995 --> 00:40:16,205
had been taken away.

644
00:40:17,039 --> 00:40:19,629
In one irreversible instant,

645
00:40:19,708 --> 00:40:21,588
in the space of a single breath,

646
00:40:22,169 --> 00:40:25,709
life as I'd known it was forever altered.

647
00:40:26,340 --> 00:40:29,840
My mom and dad tried desperately
to become American citizens

648
00:40:29,927 --> 00:40:31,467
and keep our family together.

649
00:40:32,179 --> 00:40:35,059
They pleaded, they planned, they prayed.

650
00:40:36,016 --> 00:40:37,596
They turned to others for help.

651
00:40:38,436 --> 00:40:39,476
And in the end,

652
00:40:40,146 --> 00:40:44,606
none of their efforts were enough
to keep them here in the country we love.

653
00:40:46,026 --> 00:40:50,526
After my parents were snatched away,
no government official checked up on me.

654
00:40:51,949 --> 00:40:55,539
No one seemed to care or even notice
that I was on my own.

655
00:40:58,414 --> 00:41:01,674
What kind of country do we want to be?

656
00:41:02,168 --> 00:41:04,498
One that violates the rights of children?

657
00:41:04,587 --> 00:41:09,677
Or do we wanna be an America
that values children and families

658
00:41:09,758 --> 00:41:12,388
and the freedom to be who we are?

659
00:41:12,470 --> 00:41:13,550
[cheering]

660
00:41:17,183 --> 00:41:20,393
[man] "Your broad republican domain
is a hunting ground for men."

661
00:41:21,854 --> 00:41:24,904
"Not for thieves and robbers,
enemies of society, merely,

662
00:41:25,774 --> 00:41:27,404
but for men guilty of no crime."

663
00:41:28,903 --> 00:41:31,033
"Americans have,
within the past two years,

664
00:41:31,113 --> 00:41:32,363
been hunted down

665
00:41:32,448 --> 00:41:34,948
and, without a moment’s warning,
hurried away in chains,

666
00:41:35,034 --> 00:41:37,664
and consigned to slavery
and excruciating torture."

667
00:41:38,829 --> 00:41:42,629
"Some of these have had wives
and children dependent on them for bread."

668
00:41:43,250 --> 00:41:45,000
"But of this, no account was made."

669
00:41:45,961 --> 00:41:49,471
"The right of the hunter to his prey
stands superior to the right of marriage,

670
00:41:49,548 --> 00:41:53,298
and to all rights in this republic,
the rights of God included!"

671
00:41:59,850 --> 00:42:01,690
Over the years, I've faced this question

672
00:42:01,769 --> 00:42:04,689
about the so-called line
that immigrants have to stay in.

673
00:42:04,772 --> 00:42:09,032
The truth of the matter is that this line
is nothing short of a myth.

674
00:42:10,861 --> 00:42:12,701
Even when you ask people that say,

675
00:42:12,780 --> 00:42:14,950
"You should stand in line
like everybody else,"

676
00:42:15,032 --> 00:42:17,872
if you ask them to point
to where the line starts,

677
00:42:17,952 --> 00:42:21,212
they themselves,
as American citizens, don't even know.

678
00:42:21,288 --> 00:42:26,088
It creates this idea that the line
not only is there,

679
00:42:26,168 --> 00:42:28,708
but that it's orderly and that it works.

680
00:42:28,796 --> 00:42:30,706
If you stand at the border of the US,

681
00:42:30,798 --> 00:42:33,468
a big sign says,
"Help wanted, jobs available."

682
00:42:33,551 --> 00:42:35,431
Another says, "Don't cross the line."

683
00:42:35,511 --> 00:42:40,431
We really need to get our laws
in line with reality,

684
00:42:40,516 --> 00:42:45,056
so that you don't have the friction
of people wanting the workers,

685
00:42:45,145 --> 00:42:49,065
opportunity being there, and a law saying,
"You two can't get together."

686
00:42:49,149 --> 00:42:53,149
There are so many ways
that we should do the work

687
00:42:53,237 --> 00:42:56,447
of eliminating the vestiges
of Chae Chan Ping

688
00:42:56,532 --> 00:42:58,282
from our immigration system.

689
00:42:58,367 --> 00:43:02,197
So, of course, I'm glad that
we no longer have Chinese Exclusion,

690
00:43:02,288 --> 00:43:07,248
that certain country-specific prohibitions
have been removed,

691
00:43:07,334 --> 00:43:08,674
but our work isn't done.

692
00:43:08,752 --> 00:43:11,712
Empathy is not just about
us as individuals having empathy.

693
00:43:11,797 --> 00:43:15,627
We need to be a nation of empathy.
Empathy needs to be codified into law

694
00:43:15,718 --> 00:43:18,718
and the ways in which we treat people
who seek us for refuge

695
00:43:18,804 --> 00:43:20,184
and seek us for safety.

696
00:43:27,271 --> 00:43:30,691
[narrator] So, do you still believe in
the promise of America?

697
00:43:34,528 --> 00:43:35,448
No.

698
00:43:36,030 --> 00:43:40,030
Because that promise
has always been a lie.

699
00:43:42,745 --> 00:43:48,035
But I do believe that
we can build something new,

700
00:43:48,626 --> 00:43:49,876
a dream that is…

701
00:43:52,379 --> 00:43:53,379
compassionate,

702
00:43:54,673 --> 00:43:55,803
inclusive,

703
00:43:55,883 --> 00:43:58,763
and one that understands its duty…

704
00:43:59,970 --> 00:44:04,350
to repair, to repay, and to heal.

705
00:44:05,267 --> 00:44:07,557
I still believe in the promise of America.

706
00:44:08,062 --> 00:44:09,482
And the reason why that is,

707
00:44:09,563 --> 00:44:13,193
is because at the very core
of that promise is hope.

708
00:44:14,026 --> 00:44:19,236
Hope that you will have the opportunity
to pursue your dreams,

709
00:44:19,323 --> 00:44:23,163
and, ultimately,
the hope that we as a nation

710
00:44:23,243 --> 00:44:26,253
can continue to progress for what is just.

711
00:44:26,330 --> 00:44:31,670
I don't have any other choice
but to believe in the promise of America,

712
00:44:31,752 --> 00:44:33,842
because my life is here,

713
00:44:33,921 --> 00:44:36,801
my family's here, my daughter's here.

714
00:44:36,882 --> 00:44:38,472
My future's here.

715
00:44:38,550 --> 00:44:43,140
And, by God,
I am as American as anyone else,

716
00:44:43,222 --> 00:44:47,942
and as an American
I will fight for America…

717
00:44:49,061 --> 00:44:50,231
until the end.

718
00:44:54,441 --> 00:44:57,651
The 14th Amendment ensures
that we can be full Americans,

719
00:44:57,736 --> 00:45:01,406
but why do we work so hard for that?
What's so special about being an American?

720
00:45:01,990 --> 00:45:04,990
Calm down, America.
I'm just asking a question. Calm down.

721
00:45:05,494 --> 00:45:07,794
Well, look at our history.
Look at slavery.

722
00:45:07,871 --> 00:45:10,121
Look at how we treated Black people
after slavery.

723
00:45:10,207 --> 00:45:14,627
America has wronged Native Americans,
women, the LGBTQ community, immigrants,

724
00:45:14,712 --> 00:45:16,592
every marginalized group in this country.

725
00:45:16,672 --> 00:45:20,182
It's why they're called marginalized.
Otherwise, they'd just be called groups.

726
00:45:20,259 --> 00:45:21,339
So, what's the point?

727
00:45:21,927 --> 00:45:23,597
The point is the promise.

728
00:45:24,096 --> 00:45:27,806
Are the founders old white guys
who only wanted freedom for white guys?

729
00:45:27,891 --> 00:45:28,771
Maybe.

730
00:45:28,851 --> 00:45:32,061
But if that was their intent,
they should've written it down.

731
00:45:32,146 --> 00:45:33,226
Big mistake.

732
00:45:33,313 --> 00:45:36,983
But they wrote, "life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness."

733
00:45:37,067 --> 00:45:40,567
They made that promise,
and that's how you end up freeing slaves.

734
00:45:40,654 --> 00:45:43,074
When the second founders
wrote the 14th Amendment

735
00:45:43,157 --> 00:45:45,527
they put the word "equal"
into the Constitution.

736
00:45:45,617 --> 00:45:46,617
Another promise.

737
00:45:47,327 --> 00:45:48,447
That's why we're here.

738
00:45:49,079 --> 00:45:51,579
That's why we work so hard
to be Americans.

739
00:45:52,082 --> 00:45:55,422
Because of the guarantee of life,
liberty, and pursuit of happiness

740
00:45:55,502 --> 00:45:58,302
and the promise of the 14th Amendment.

741
00:45:59,548 --> 00:46:01,718
America, I'm gonna take you at your word.

742
00:46:02,718 --> 00:46:04,178
And that word is "equal."

743
00:46:07,222 --> 00:46:09,432
Words have power.

744
00:46:10,350 --> 00:46:13,650
As we've witnessed,
words can change the world.

745
00:46:14,354 --> 00:46:15,484
"We the People."

746
00:46:16,064 --> 00:46:18,534
The 14th Amendment is a promise

747
00:46:18,609 --> 00:46:22,819
that we can be an inclusive,
diverse, equal society,

748
00:46:23,322 --> 00:46:28,162
but it's also a commitment
that we the people make to each other

749
00:46:28,243 --> 00:46:30,203
to form that more perfect union.

750
00:46:31,038 --> 00:46:34,578
We have to choose to bring 14 to life.

751
00:46:35,083 --> 00:46:38,093
[intense, poignant music plays]

752
00:46:39,588 --> 00:46:43,088
[cheering]

753
00:46:45,677 --> 00:46:49,427
Here we are at 150 years
of the 14th Amendment

754
00:46:49,515 --> 00:46:51,475
and we're long overdue

755
00:46:52,017 --> 00:46:54,937
for moving the 14th Amendment
from the fringes

756
00:46:55,020 --> 00:46:58,400
to the center of our conversation
about American democracy.

757
00:46:58,482 --> 00:47:02,992
"All persons born or naturalized
in the United States

758
00:47:03,070 --> 00:47:05,700
and subject to the jurisdiction thereof…"

759
00:47:05,823 --> 00:47:09,543
"…are citizens of the United States
and of the state wherein they reside."

760
00:47:09,618 --> 00:47:13,958
Our entire vision
of what makes this country a democracy

761
00:47:14,039 --> 00:47:15,119
and so important,

762
00:47:15,207 --> 00:47:18,997
so many of those values and principles
are deeply embedded

763
00:47:19,086 --> 00:47:21,916
and emanate from the words
of the 14th Amendment.

764
00:47:22,005 --> 00:47:24,875
"No state shall make or enforce any law…"

765
00:47:24,967 --> 00:47:27,677
"…which shall abridge the privileges
or immunities…"

766
00:47:27,761 --> 00:47:29,971
"…of the citizens of the United States."

767
00:47:30,055 --> 00:47:36,595
[emotional instrumental music]

768
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:47,570
The Declaration, the Constitution,
the rulings of the courts,

769
00:47:47,656 --> 00:47:52,406
are filled with words like "equality"
and "justice for all" and "liberty."

770
00:47:52,494 --> 00:47:55,214
We have a Pledge of Allegiance
that has these words.

771
00:47:56,540 --> 00:48:01,250
And the 14th Amendment was intended
to make that vision real.

772
00:48:01,336 --> 00:48:04,296
"Nor shall any state
deprive any person of life…"

773
00:48:04,381 --> 00:48:07,721
"…liberty or property
without due process of law…"

774
00:48:07,801 --> 00:48:10,301
"…nor deny any person
within its jurisdiction…"

775
00:48:10,387 --> 00:48:12,887
"…the equal protection of the laws."

776
00:48:13,557 --> 00:48:14,677
It set a north star.

777
00:48:14,766 --> 00:48:18,976
It's a north star that remains
as yet out of reach for too many,

778
00:48:19,646 --> 00:48:22,856
and so much of modern America

779
00:48:22,941 --> 00:48:25,531
has been around a fight and a struggle

780
00:48:25,611 --> 00:48:30,451
to make the ideals embodied
by the 14th Amendment a reality.

781
00:48:30,532 --> 00:48:34,492
The 14th Amendment has
been the bulwark of possibility,

782
00:48:35,037 --> 00:48:39,247
but it has never been a guarantee
of real justice in this country.

783
00:48:46,006 --> 00:48:47,836
[man] The South was set upon

784
00:48:47,925 --> 00:48:50,795
by the vulturous carpetbagger
and federal troops,

785
00:48:50,886 --> 00:48:54,926
so that the infamous,
illegal 14th Amendment might be passed.

786
00:48:55,015 --> 00:48:58,685
The Bible and the gun
carved America out of the wilderness,

787
00:48:58,769 --> 00:49:01,899
made it the greatest white country
on the face of this Earth.

788
00:49:01,980 --> 00:49:07,320
[chanting] White lives matter!

789
00:49:07,402 --> 00:49:09,202
It is obvious today…

790
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:13,990
that America has defaulted
on this promissory note

791
00:49:14,076 --> 00:49:18,826
insofar as her citizens of color
are concerned.

792
00:49:23,710 --> 00:49:25,340
[voice breaks] It's amazing…

793
00:49:26,630 --> 00:49:29,010
why we keep loving this country,

794
00:49:29,591 --> 00:49:32,091
and this country does not love us back.

795
00:49:32,177 --> 00:49:35,007
[crowd boos]

796
00:49:39,393 --> 00:49:42,103
[man] This man kneeled on a man's neck

797
00:49:42,187 --> 00:49:46,317
for eight minutes and 46 seconds.

798
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:47,820
Can you imagine that?

799
00:49:48,735 --> 00:49:51,655
[man] They want people of color
to be talked about

800
00:49:51,738 --> 00:49:53,908
as being thugs and we're bums…

801
00:49:53,991 --> 00:49:58,831
And my people, as an immigrant,
we're rapists--? You know what?

802
00:49:59,454 --> 00:50:00,964
We built this country!

803
00:50:01,039 --> 00:50:03,629
[crowd cheers]

804
00:50:03,709 --> 00:50:05,879
And I got news for them!

805
00:50:05,961 --> 00:50:08,461
-We ain't going nowhere!
-[crowd cheers]

806
00:50:08,547 --> 00:50:11,297
We're not going nowhere!

807
00:50:11,383 --> 00:50:14,683
The 14th Amendment can never do the work

808
00:50:14,761 --> 00:50:17,221
that we as individuals have to do

809
00:50:17,305 --> 00:50:19,765
to live up to our values.

810
00:50:19,850 --> 00:50:23,600
And if we don't have values
that are committed to equality,

811
00:50:23,687 --> 00:50:27,977
then the 14th Amendment
will remain a principle and a possibility,

812
00:50:28,066 --> 00:50:32,316
but it will not guarantee
and ensure equality in this country.

813
00:50:32,404 --> 00:50:35,624
The Constitution is a living document.
It belongs to the people.

814
00:50:35,699 --> 00:50:38,869
We have the power to continue pushing,

815
00:50:38,952 --> 00:50:43,792
to make sure that the courts
understand the law as we understand it.

816
00:50:43,874 --> 00:50:47,634
The meaning of the 14th Amendment
is really fought out on the streets.

817
00:50:47,711 --> 00:50:50,511
It's a product
of people like Frederick Douglass.

818
00:50:50,589 --> 00:50:52,969
It's a product of
the Civil Rights Movement.

819
00:50:53,467 --> 00:50:56,757
[Obama] Because of what they did
the doors of opportunity swung open

820
00:50:56,845 --> 00:50:59,595
not just for Black folks,
but for every American.

821
00:50:59,681 --> 00:51:01,891
Women marched through those doors,

822
00:51:01,975 --> 00:51:04,225
Latinos marched through those doors,

823
00:51:04,311 --> 00:51:07,021
Asian Americans, gay Americans,

824
00:51:07,105 --> 00:51:10,475
Americans with disabilities,
they all came through those doors.

825
00:51:13,070 --> 00:51:17,370
Activists today have to know the law,
we have to know history,

826
00:51:17,449 --> 00:51:19,079
know the Constitution,

827
00:51:19,159 --> 00:51:22,749
because these are the things
that we are pushing for change on.

828
00:51:25,624 --> 00:51:27,964
My goal, my hope, is that

829
00:51:28,043 --> 00:51:30,713
people talk about
their Second Amendment rights.

830
00:51:30,796 --> 00:51:33,336
Even little kids know
their First Amendment rights.

831
00:51:33,423 --> 00:51:36,263
My dream is that people know
their 14th Amendment rights.

832
00:51:36,343 --> 00:51:40,473
I'd love to hear people saying, "That
violates my 14th Amendment rights."

833
00:51:41,348 --> 00:51:44,098
[man] "I urge you to answer
the highest calling of your heart

834
00:51:44,184 --> 00:51:46,564
and stand up for what you truly believe."

835
00:51:46,645 --> 00:51:51,015
"In my life, I have done all I can
to demonstrate that the way of peace,

836
00:51:51,108 --> 00:51:54,068
the way of love and non-violence
is the more excellent way."

837
00:51:54,945 --> 00:51:57,355
"Now it is your turn to let freedom ring."

838
00:51:57,447 --> 00:52:01,487
"When historians pick up their pens
to write the story of the 21st century,

839
00:52:01,576 --> 00:52:04,036
let them say that it was your generation

840
00:52:04,121 --> 00:52:07,041
that laid down
the heavy burdens of hate at last."

841
00:52:07,958 --> 00:52:13,048
"Ordinary people with extraordinary vision
can redeem the soul of America

842
00:52:13,130 --> 00:52:15,550
by getting in what I call good trouble,

843
00:52:15,632 --> 00:52:17,222
necessary trouble."

844
00:52:17,801 --> 00:52:19,931
[reporter]
In a massive win for immigrant rights,

845
00:52:20,011 --> 00:52:23,101
the Supreme Court's ruled against
President Trump's attempt to end

846
00:52:23,181 --> 00:52:25,731
the Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals Program

847
00:52:25,809 --> 00:52:29,649
that protects nearly
700,000 immigrants from deportation.

848
00:52:29,729 --> 00:52:36,029
Your fight shows that America,
Americans in this nation have hope.

849
00:52:36,111 --> 00:52:39,531
Never lose your hope.
Never lose your fire.

850
00:52:40,115 --> 00:52:41,525
We don't always have to wait

851
00:52:41,616 --> 00:52:44,036
for the powerful to give us our rights.

852
00:52:44,119 --> 00:52:46,289
We can demand our own rights.

853
00:52:47,664 --> 00:52:50,924
[reporter] A historic ruling
from the US Supreme Court today

854
00:52:51,001 --> 00:52:53,001
outlawing job discrimination

855
00:52:53,086 --> 00:52:57,006
on the basis of sexual orientation
or transgender identity.

856
00:52:57,090 --> 00:52:59,720
The case involving Aimee Stephens.

857
00:52:59,801 --> 00:53:02,431
She worked at a funeral home,
came out as trans,

858
00:53:02,512 --> 00:53:05,932
started presenting as a woman
and was fired for it.

859
00:53:06,016 --> 00:53:10,846
Don't let anybody else tell you
what you should be or what you are.

860
00:53:11,479 --> 00:53:14,229
As long as we hold on to the politics
of fear and anger,

861
00:53:14,316 --> 00:53:17,736
we will never be great in the way
that we are intended to be great.

862
00:53:17,819 --> 00:53:21,869
We will never fulfill the promise
of our Constitution.

863
00:53:21,948 --> 00:53:25,238
But if we reject the politics
of fear and anger,

864
00:53:25,785 --> 00:53:29,455
if we actually embrace the hope
of the 14th Amendment,

865
00:53:29,539 --> 00:53:32,169
if we accept the challenge
of the 14th Amendment

866
00:53:32,250 --> 00:53:35,630
to truly be a great society
where everyone is equal,

867
00:53:35,712 --> 00:53:40,342
where every human being's dignity
and rights are protected and respected,

868
00:53:40,425 --> 00:53:43,545
then I think there is
a great America to come.

869
00:53:43,637 --> 00:53:49,517
[hopeful instrumental music]

870
00:54:02,155 --> 00:54:03,775
Throughout this journey,

871
00:54:03,865 --> 00:54:09,035
we've seen the sacrifices that the heroes
fighting for true and lasting equality

872
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:12,120
have made and continue to make
for all of us.

873
00:54:13,333 --> 00:54:15,463
Equality is a commitment.

874
00:54:16,044 --> 00:54:17,884
It is a daily practice.

875
00:54:18,380 --> 00:54:22,970
We have to choose to honor
each other every single day,

876
00:54:23,051 --> 00:54:27,101
even and especially
when it's not easy to do so.

877
00:54:28,056 --> 00:54:32,096
We have to decide
if we are willing to do what's necessary

878
00:54:32,185 --> 00:54:35,895
to make the promise
of the 14th Amendment a reality.

879
00:54:37,482 --> 00:54:41,072
And if we commit
to take that journey together,

880
00:54:41,653 --> 00:54:44,363
then, as Frederick Douglass once said,

881
00:54:44,447 --> 00:54:47,487
"Our glory as a nation will be complete."

882
00:54:48,159 --> 00:54:50,619
"Our peace will flow like a river,

883
00:54:51,413 --> 00:54:54,793
and our foundation will
be the everlasting rocks."

884
00:54:56,251 --> 00:54:58,711
♪ We are the promise ♪

885
00:54:59,462 --> 00:55:01,422
♪ Fighting to set us free ♪

886
00:55:01,506 --> 00:55:04,086
♪ King had a dream that we gotta keep ♪

887
00:55:04,175 --> 00:55:06,755
♪ Love is the road of humanity ♪

888
00:55:06,845 --> 00:55:09,345
♪ We are the promise ♪

889
00:55:10,015 --> 00:55:11,925
♪ No matter your point of view ♪

890
00:55:12,017 --> 00:55:15,147
♪ We are the future
We'll see it through ♪

891
00:55:15,228 --> 00:55:17,308
♪ It all starts with me and you ♪

892
00:55:17,397 --> 00:55:19,817
♪ We are the promise ♪

893
00:55:19,899 --> 00:55:22,689
♪ Promise, promise ♪

894
00:55:22,777 --> 00:55:25,157
♪ We are the promise ♪

895
00:55:25,238 --> 00:55:27,698
♪ Promise, promise ♪

896
00:55:28,408 --> 00:55:29,778
[raps] ♪ Super, mmm ♪

897
00:55:30,493 --> 00:55:32,753
♪ Yeah, yeah, what it look like ♪

898
00:55:32,829 --> 00:55:35,249
♪ We 'bout to shine like stars
On a good night ♪

899
00:55:35,332 --> 00:55:38,672
♪ Open their minds like art
Born out the hood, light up the dark ♪

900
00:55:38,752 --> 00:55:40,962
♪ Listen, here goes a shot
Out of a rocket ♪

901
00:55:41,046 --> 00:55:43,006
♪ Imagine living
Like nothing can stop it ♪

902
00:55:43,089 --> 00:55:45,839
♪ The vision that drives your decision
To aim for the target ♪

903
00:55:45,925 --> 00:55:48,295
♪ Imagine the freedom to thrive
Being worn like a garment ♪

904
00:55:48,386 --> 00:55:51,056
♪ Stitched with a little tolerance
Picture a world where all of us ♪

905
00:55:51,139 --> 00:55:53,349
♪ Acknowledge each other
And smile at our differences ♪

906
00:55:53,433 --> 00:55:56,103
♪ Knowing that when you fly as me
The sky is still limitless ♪

907
00:55:56,186 --> 00:55:58,646
♪ Celebrating variety
We found our new genesis ♪

908
00:55:58,730 --> 00:56:01,070
♪ Ooh, I feel amazing
Ooh, what can I say ♪

909
00:56:01,149 --> 00:56:04,029
♪ But my mama's mama dreamed of a day
That resembled this moment ♪

910
00:56:04,110 --> 00:56:06,700
♪ Found our way to the pyramids
Just by following omens ♪

911
00:56:06,780 --> 00:56:09,070
♪ Livin' life like I'm still a kid
I'm a king on my throne ♪

912
00:56:09,157 --> 00:56:10,827
♪ Which passed down to me, if I'm honest ♪

913
00:56:10,909 --> 00:56:13,449
-♪ 'Cause we are, we are ♪
-♪ We are the promise ♪

914
00:56:14,204 --> 00:56:16,124
♪ Fighting to set us free ♪

915
00:56:16,206 --> 00:56:18,706
♪ King had a dream that we gotta keep ♪

916
00:56:18,792 --> 00:56:21,462
♪ Love is the road of humanity ♪

917
00:56:21,544 --> 00:56:23,924
♪ We are the promise ♪

918
00:56:24,672 --> 00:56:26,722
♪ No matter your point of view ♪

919
00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:29,390
♪ We are the future
We'll see it through ♪

920
00:56:30,011 --> 00:56:32,101
♪ It all starts with me and you ♪

921
00:56:32,180 --> 00:56:34,470
♪ We are the promise ♪

922
00:56:34,557 --> 00:56:36,977
♪ Promise, promise ♪

923
00:56:37,519 --> 00:56:39,809
♪ We are the promise ♪

924
00:56:39,896 --> 00:56:42,436
♪ Promise, promise ♪

925
00:56:42,524 --> 00:56:43,984
♪ Whoa ♪

926
00:56:44,067 --> 00:56:46,527
♪ Look around, every one of us

927
00:56:46,611 --> 00:56:49,321
♪ It's in between
But love, it holds us ♪

928
00:56:49,406 --> 00:56:51,906
♪ And overtakes the ones who won't ♪

929
00:56:51,991 --> 00:56:54,331
♪ Rejected ones are the cornerstone ♪

930
00:56:54,411 --> 00:56:57,211
♪ We're rebuilding on the precipice ♪

931
00:56:57,288 --> 00:56:59,708
♪ Of tearing down all your prejudice ♪

932
00:56:59,791 --> 00:57:02,591
♪ Gonna trample the malevolence ♪

933
00:57:02,669 --> 00:57:05,209
♪ Equality's our inheritance ♪

934
00:57:05,296 --> 00:57:08,876
♪ 'Cause we all got a story
Fighting for our glory and peace ♪

935
00:57:08,967 --> 00:57:10,587
♪ Glory and peace ♪

936
00:57:10,677 --> 00:57:15,637
♪ No matter your color, religion
Your lover or creed ♪

937
00:57:15,723 --> 00:57:20,773
♪ 'Cause we all gotta rewrite
What isn't right, oh ♪

938
00:57:20,854 --> 00:57:25,404
♪ We can't discriminate or eliminate ♪

939
00:57:25,483 --> 00:57:27,993
♪ We are the promise ♪

940
00:57:28,820 --> 00:57:30,660
♪ Fighting to set us free ♪

941
00:57:30,738 --> 00:57:33,368
♪ King had a dream that we gotta keep ♪

942
00:57:33,450 --> 00:57:35,990
♪ Love is the road of humanity ♪

943
00:57:36,077 --> 00:57:39,327
-♪ We are the promise ♪
-♪ Yeah ♪

944
00:57:39,414 --> 00:57:41,424
♪ No matter your point of view ♪

945
00:57:41,499 --> 00:57:43,839
♪ We are the future
We'll see it through ♪

946
00:57:44,669 --> 00:57:46,709
♪ It all starts with me and you ♪

947
00:57:46,796 --> 00:57:49,256
♪ We are the promise ♪

948
00:57:50,091 --> 00:57:52,091
♪ Fighting to set us free ♪

949
00:57:52,177 --> 00:57:54,717
♪ King had a dream that we gotta keep ♪

950
00:57:54,804 --> 00:57:57,274
♪ Love is the road of humanity ♪

951
00:57:57,348 --> 00:57:59,848
♪ We are the promise ♪

952
00:58:00,518 --> 00:58:02,598
♪ No matter your point of view ♪

953
00:58:02,687 --> 00:58:05,227
♪ We are the future
We'll see it through ♪

954
00:58:06,024 --> 00:58:08,034
♪ It all starts with me and you ♪

955
00:58:08,109 --> 00:58:10,399
♪ We are the promise ♪

956
00:58:10,487 --> 00:58:13,027
♪ Promise, promise ♪

957
00:58:13,531 --> 00:58:15,741
♪ We are the promise ♪

958
00:58:15,825 --> 00:58:18,325
♪ Promise, promise ♪

959
00:58:18,870 --> 00:58:21,120
♪ We are the promise ♪

960
00:58:21,206 --> 00:58:23,576
♪ Promise, promise ♪

961
00:58:24,125 --> 00:58:26,585
♪ We are the promise… ♪