How Times Have Changed: In 1975, CA Gov. Jerry Brown Told Republican President Not To Dump Refugees On California

Freedom Outpost  According to The Washington Post, Larry Engelmann’s Tears Before the Rain: An Oral History of the Fall of South Vietnam, writes that Julia Vadala Taft, who led the interagency task force for refugee resettlement, remembered Brown’s opposition.

“The new governor of California, Jerry Brown, was very concerned about refugees settling in his state. Brown even attempted to prevent planes carrying refugees from landing at Travis Air Force Base near Sacramento. . . . The secretary of health and welfare, Mario Obledo, felt that this addition of a large minority group would be unwelcome in California. And he said that they already had a large population of Hispanics, Filipinos, blacks, and other minorities.”

"There is something a little strange about saying, 'Let's bring in 500,000 more people' when we can't take care of the 1 million [Californians] out of work," he said while trying to block refugee flights to Travis Air Force Base near San Francisco.

"However, in 2015, Brown changed his tune when it came to Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro Sobarkah's decision to dump Muslim refugees into the united States.

"The LA Times reported:

"Gov. Jerry Brown played it cool, showing concern both for the refugees and public safety."In a statement, Brown said he would "work closely" with Obama "so that he can both uphold America's traditional role as a place of asylum, but also ensure that anyone seeking refuge in America is fully vetted.""But Brown has his own checkered history of demagoguery about refugees. As a rookie governor when Saigon fell in 1975 and the U.S. was flying Vietnamese refugees to America, Brown was outspokenly opposed.