Former Los Angeles mayor and potential California gubernatorial candidate Antonio Villaraigosa told the Democratic National Convention the party “must stand up and fight for these 11 million” illegal aliens in the United States, “for we are our brother’s keeper.”
“These 11 million people have no credentials to this hall,” Villaraigosa said, “they don’t even have a vote. But they must have a voice in our party and our nation. Donald Trump proposes the greatest mass deportation in our nation’s, or any nation’s history. It’s patterned after ‘Operation Wetback,’ a shameful episode in our nation’s history when 1 million Mexicans were deported. He would not only deport our neighbors and our families, he would vanquish the dream. The dream they carry in their heart when they answer that beacon of hope and light to dreamers from all over the world. So in this city of brotherly love, we must stand up and fight for these 11 million, for we are our brother’s keeper.”
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