Prop 187 News Today

Larry Elder, the radio host and Republican front-runner in California’s recall...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- If you want to see how much immigration has shaped California, all you need to do is walk 300 feet down San Franciscos Clement Street. In one block between 4th and 5th Avenue, you will walk past a Burmese restaurant, a Mexican taquería, a Korean fusion eatery, and a Turkish restaurant. On the other side of the block are restaurants serving Chinese, Thai, Japanese and Vietnamese food. Theres even a crepe place squeezed in. California has by far the most immigrants of any sta...

Orange county is a new blue. and what happened in california was what prop-187. and now with donald trumps divisive anti-immigrant rhetoric, orange county went blue as well. >> thank you. all condolences to any who lost their lives in your district, and we definitely will be thinking about you guys. next up, the house leadership fight isnt just about nancy pelosi. ill talk to a new democrat who is vying to join the new leadership team. vying to join w leadership team. ♪ do you want to take t...

Appreciate it. thanks for joining us this hour. in 1994 the year i graduated from college in the great state of california where im from and where i went to college, the streets of california for a while looked like this. all over the state. massive, massive protests. the state frankly torn apart that year by something called prop 187. it was more or less the arizona papers please laws of the 1990s. proper 187 was a ballot initiative that said people who were in california illegally there as ill...

Like a perversion of the truth that some people actually didnt get the joke like for example californias republican governor pete wilson who was a specific target of that satire. he did not get the jock. in an interview with "the new york times" columnist mr. wilson explained without irony that the goal of prop 187 was, in fact, self-deportati self-deportation. you will self-deport. he used the exact phrase used as satire without him woupt understanding its satirical origins. the prop 187 episod...

>> yeah, you know, myself and my writing partner, we were sick of like everybody else in california, we were sick of hearing about the -- and living the anti-immigrant hysteria going on in california during the prop 187 era, and i mean people were losing their minds, people in pizza places, clerks were asking dark skinned mexican people for id before they could buy a pizza. the world was just gone as they say in cartoons, plum loco. the way to cope with awful things like prop 187 or anti-immigra...

Now. in 2008, republicans in the florida exit polls were asked if all illegal immigrants should be deported. 40% said yes. the number this year, 31%. in 2008, republicans were asked if there should be a path to citizenship in florida. 29% said yes. this time, 38% said yes. there appears to be declining -- a declining amount of anti-immigrant feeling among republican voters. as anti-immigrant policies go off the charts for the republican candidates. this is beyond not getting the joke. something ...

Hospital. that would apply to millions of people in california. california voters passed the ballot initiative in 1994 but a court later blocked it as unconstitutional. i was living in california at the time im from california, i remember, look at this the huge protest, prop 187 tore the state apart in terms of whether or not it was a good idea to try to stop illegal immigration, by combing through the states kindergartens, finding the illegal 5-year-olds and turning them out in the street. a lo...

Explained the goal of prop 187 was to get people to, you guessed it, self-deport. he used the satirists phrase. this would be like rick santorum why people were always talking about googling him and launched a new campaign slogan, santorum, google me. no, you dont get it! now in 2012 the legacy of pete wilson not getting that self-deportation was a joke to make him look bad. the legacy is mitt romney the front-runner for the republican presidential nomination in 2012, about to head in the first ...

Bringing down the quality of life. they are not allowing our young american teenagers the character-building experiences of picking fruit and cleaning hotel beds. >> daniel portado if you actually believe in deportation, what are you yourself still doing in california? >> well, i am here to help everyone get out. i hope to look forward to the day where i will stand at the border and say "will the last mexican please turn out of california, please turn out the lights" that will be me. >> what was...