Leo R. Chavez

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1,192 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 20 Dec

Leo R. Chavez’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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This is my country, right?

And I think the prospect of mass deportation, and as he says, even if you're a citizen, you're not safe.

Well, what does that tell you?

I mean, that's pretty scary stuff.

That's not just being a target of negative rhetoric.

It's being the subject of practices that could basically change your life forever.

There's probably nothing scarier than that in the world.

Think about the Indians who were kicked out of Uganda back in the 70s, right?

And

And Mondami's mother, she made a great film on this, Mississippi Masala, one of my favorite films of all time.

And it's about people like her who were kicked out of Uganda, her family, and they came to the United States and she made this great movie about it.

And it's incredible.

I can see where he gets his heritage from.

And his father's an academic, an anthropologist.

And so I think it's not just Latinos who are the subject of this anti-immigrant and anti-Latino rhetoric.

It's other people.

And they should really be aware of what I'm talking about because it's going to affect a lot of people until things change.

I mean, I don't know about you, but I feel sorry when I hear the rhetoric about the Somalis.

I feel bad when I hear other people, the Haitians.

I mean, you could just go on.

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