pedro gonzÁlez was a radio announcer in the 1930s in los angeles.e was actually a singer, a very popular singer, and he started a morning show called the early risers. his show would be on early in the morning. as they were going into the fields to work you would play music for them, but then in 1930, president herbert hoover begins a mass deportation program against mexicans. we we are recording today there has been 400,000 people deported under the obama administration this year, a record. there has been a million now since barack obama became president. that's three years. herbert hoover deported a million mexicans in about a year and a half. they beat -- the deportation mexicans in the 1930s was far greater even than what is happening today and pedro gonzÁlez was the only radio announcer to question this. to attack it, to condemn it. as soon as he started doing that the launch angela's district attorney indicted him on a rape charge. they convicted him and sentenced him to one to 50 years in san quentin prison, where he immediately went to san q