Alex Padilla, From California To Capitol Hill
Latino USA
My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
It was an anti-immigrant initiative in his home state of California that pushed Alex Padilla into politics, now he is making history as the first Latino to represent California in the U.S. Senate. In an extended interview with Padilla, Maria Hinojosa asks the senator about Prop 187, the controversial 1994 ballot measure that politicized Padilla, and many other Latinos of his generation. They also discuss the Senator’s career-long focus on voting rights, and the threats they face today.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Maria Inojosa, and I am Penileira Mides. |
| 0:03.0 | And on this new series, we're going to get to know the most powerful Mexican government |
| 0:08.6 | official ever to face trial in the US for his alleged ties to the infamous drug lord, El |
| 0:15.4 | Chappo. |
| 0:16.4 | But this is not your regular narco story. |
| 0:19.3 | It's like true crime, myths, telenovela. |
| 0:22.6 | This is our new series, USA versus García Luna. |
| 0:27.1 | Find it whatever you get your podcasts and at futuroinvestigates.org. |
| 0:39.8 | It was a physical, palpable observation of people power. |
| 0:45.8 | And so for me, and a lot of people in my generation, you at that moment, I had no choice. |
| 0:51.5 | I had to engage, I had to get involved. |
| 0:58.3 | From futuro media, it's Latino USA. |
| 1:00.4 | I'm Maria Inojosa. |
| 1:01.8 | Today, a conversation with California's first Latino Senator, Alex Badilla. |
| 1:15.1 | Alex Badilla might not have become a politician. |
| 1:18.4 | But it not been for anti-immigrant hate in the state where he was born and raised by |
| 1:23.0 | Mexican immigrant parents. |
| 1:25.5 | But Badilla took that hatred and transformed it into action. |
| 1:30.2 | And now, Badilla is making history. |
| 1:33.1 | On January 20, Vice President Kamala Harris swore Alex Badilla in to feel the vacancy she |
| 1:39.8 | left in the Senate. |
| 1:41.8 | That day, Badilla became the first Latino Senator to represent California, a state that is |
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