Immigrant rights activist Jorge-Mario Cabrera says KFI-AM San Francisco talk show hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou gave his cellphone number out on the air and he says that was the last straw. Cabrera is a spokesman for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. Cabrera tells the L.A. Times he received over 400 hateful calls including this message: ?Listen, you pile of garbage?You need to pack your [expletive] up and go back to wherever it is you came from. Nobody wants you here. You are invading the legal people that are in this country and ruining this country. I hope you choke in your own vomit.?
The paper reports that in the days after the John and Ken gave out Cabrera?s cellphone number they urged listeners opposed to state tuition assistance for illegal immigrants to call him. Cabrera is a spokesman for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. The coalition and other Latino and immigrant rights groups in calling on KFI to remove the show?s hosts or face a boycott of its sponsors. KFI PD Robin Bertolucci was quoted in the paper saying she plans to meet with the group soon. We're looking forward to talking to them,? she said. ?I think that?s the best place for us to discuss it.?
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