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Dana Rohrabacher: let me just note that the person who alerted me to the subject I will talk about tonight was a World War II veteran. His…

On the recordMay 17, 2004
let me just note that the person who alerted me to the subject I will talk about tonight was a World War II veteran. His name was Frank Casado, a very proud Mexican American, who owned and built Lucy's Restaurant in Los Angeles. Frank later became very politically active. He was a Democrat, I might add, but he was a very close friend, and I would go to his restaurant as a young reporter and then as I worked in Ronald Reagan's staff in the White House; and Frank would always pull me aside and say, ``Dana, you have got to do something about the illegal alien invasion of our country. You have got to do something about it.'' If there ever was an American of Mexican descent it was Frank Casado. Frank joined the Navy in World War II, and he always prided himself that he had been on the boxing team and been one of the contenders of the championship of the fleet, and he was a very, very proud man.…
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Dana Rohrabacher
Republican · California

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Discussing the influence of a World War II veteran on his views about immigration.

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