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Column: We now live in a Prop. 187 America. What's next?
We tell ourselves stories in order to live, Joan Didion famously wrote, and the one Democrats in California repeated for decades was Proposition 187. Californians of a certain age can recite it by ...
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Letters to the Editor: I was a teacher when Prop. 187 was on the ballot. Here's what my students did to show their patriotism
To the editor: Reading Gustavo Arellano's column on living in a "Prop. 187 America" and seeing the photograph of protesters in 1994 reminded me of my life at that time. I was teaching English as a ...
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The GOP’s “Prop 187” Moment
The Prop 187 story is now well-known: Governor Pete Wilson’s decision to fuel his re-election campaign with fear and scapegoating ultimately backfired spectacularly. He campaigned and won re ...
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Donald Trump is the Prop 187 president
I asked if we could be seeing a national version of what happened in California after Proposition 187, 1994's aggressively anti-immigrant measure pushed by then-Gov. Pete Wilson. Prop 187 ...
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Pete Wilson Did Not Make California Turn Blue: Unraveling a Myth
President Trump, Please Staple (Conditional) Green Cards to Graduate Degrees The Truth About DOGE Trump DOJ’s Eric Adams Dismissal Heading for Constitutional Controversy Some Democrats Look to ...
Los Angeles Times18d
Why California’s Latinos are just as politically divided as everyone else
This time, it feels different — because Latino voters and identity are different. Proposition 187 and battles over illegal immigration are rapidly ceasing to define a Latino electorate that is ...
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The Conversation / The GOP
But that began to change in the 1990s with Gov. Pete Wilson endorsing Proposition 187, which would make undocumented immigrants ineligible for public benefits. (“Ghost of Prop. 187 rises as ...