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moved with the program we want to thank the young people and mayor ed lee. we want to thank all the people for their leadership. thank you (clapping) so, now we would like to quickly encourage all the protected officials i see many, many elected persons and the supervisor richard. i'd like to a encourage everyone supervisor david chu if you would come up to the front.
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we definitely needed the elected involved so please come and join us in the front. and any seniors in the room we would like to encourage you to take those seats >> (speaking spanish.) >> we are going to go forward and move with the program and which i know that a bit slightly in order to introduce another group that expresses culture and mexican hip hop and modern dance. we want to introduce this group that's been structural in
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(clapping) thank you >> (speaking spanish.) >> (clapping). >> we would now like to welcome san francisco district attorney to take stage to more awards he's the first latino in the in addition to be to be our former police chief. his approach is to hold people accountable without breaking taxpayers. thought it's thirty year career in law enforcement he's unsuccessful lowered crime in all positions >> (speaking spanish.) >> successful lowered crime inl positions >> (speaking spanish.) >>successful lowered crime in a positions >> (speaking spanish.) >> so you know i have to
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states and a has been successful so we would like to welcome our district attorney george (clapping) >> (speaking spanish.) >> i was telling you earlier that i'm kooulg but my wife is mexican and i'm surround by mexicans all my life so you know i think before we get into the awards here i want inform say a if you words because i think that's a real movement of celebration the mayor talked about the due process of ordinance which is so well-connected to the way that we live here and the way that san francisco way. it's also important to talk
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about what's going on at the state level because this past week ore governor signed a trust act. it's a tremendous messages to the community to say we welcome you, you are part of the community and we recognize our contributions to our community (clapping) >> we should congratulate i think we should congratulate the governor and the legislators for having the circular to do this and we now are going to be able to have a driver's license (clapping) yes. yes. . so if you may recall until 178994 anybody could go to the dmv and get a driver's license then pete wilson in 1994 that
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turned things around and for the next 20 years we've criminal listed a large number of immigrants for the only thing they've done wrong is come here to work because we needed to come here to work so this is a major step. and in addition to all of that we also have legislation that actually stops extortion so an employer can in the morning say he is not going to pay you. all the things that occurred have done so in the past week. we're e we've still not gotten immigration reform across the united states but san francisco
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(clapping) >> (speaking spanish.) >> and the importance of all of this is because we're going to celebrate with young people and celebrate their accomplishments so young people can grew up in a society where they're not going to be fearful of being here and that's a reason for celebration today. i want to start with our first
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nominee is jonathan. jonathan where are you? yeah. let's give a round of applause (clapping) >> jonathan is a telephone grader at mission high school he's 80 a great student and good citizen. he has a gpa of 4.0. he's devoted countless hours as the far sit baseball team and is applying for a large number of colleges and we know heel represent us well, so - jonathan
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