Judge Pfaelzer rules Proposition 187 is unconstitutional, arguing that Clinton’s welfare bill supersedes 187. The state of California appeals. Nov. 15, 1997, front page of Los Angeles Times.

Proposition 187 and its aftermath marked a turning point in California history. Political scientists and analysts draw a direct line from the passage of Prop 187 to a shift in the state's ...

Proposition 187's lessons seemed so obvious that a 2013 Republican National Committee report concluded that the party needed to tone down its anti-immigrant language lest “our Party’s appeal ...

Prop. 187 also had an impact on the national level that, in some ways, reflected what California voters said they wanted when it was passed. The Welfare Reform Act of 1996, ...

Border Patrol agents at the San Ysidro border crossing in November 2018. (Mike Blake/Reuters) Twenty-five years ago, voters in California passed Proposition 187. This initiative, called “Save ...

Prop 187 awakened the political power of Latinos in the Golden state. And it may have marked the beginning of the end for California's once-mighty Republican Party.

The post-Proposition 187 era has witnessed an energized and ever-growing Latino voter turnout, not just in California but also in key electoral states where Latino voters can determine the outcome.

Prop. 187, which took 59 percent of the vote 20 years ago, would not pass in California today, its proponents acknowledge. “We’re not surprised that there’s a sea change in the feelings of ...

Voters who care most about economic issues will still coalesce as an ethnic bloc if their community is attacked.

More than 30 years after marching in Los Angeles as a child, I was back on the streets of my city advocating for immigrants.

After Trump's victory, the Latino backlash against Prop. 187 and the subsequent Democratic takeover of California looks more like an exception than a rule.