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Leave the country when governor wilson wins the fall election. self-deportation, they sent this press release around to news organizations during the prop 187 fight in 1994. it wasn't just press releases, they did radio ads, too. >> immigrants, are you tired of being pushed around in my in america, join the conservative political action group, halto, hispanics against lib cal take over. i'm the chairman, what is self-deportation you ask? think of it as a permanent vacation. just imagine, in one easy step you could avoid all this crazy anti-immigrant harassment in america. how? self-deportation...

With a columnist which he explained the goal of prop 187 was to get people to, you guessed it, self-deport. he used the satirist's 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 don't 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 primary contest in the southwest, with the halto slogan hanging around h...

>> but we don't know the impact on elections. we don't know in 2006, it wasn't in effect. in 2008 it wasn't an effect. with the war in afghanistan and iraq out there, we don't know what the implications will be. as much you went to say people want to do policies by this, thank goodness we don't. >> gregg: it brings up a very good point. it's an is astute observation. democratic strategists say the arizona law is a key moment to win the loyalty of hispanic voters them believe it will have a chilling effect for republicans with latinos with the passage of california's prop 187 did in the 1990s. ...

It would be foley to predict how it's going to come out judges react to political pressure in different ways. there are political differences in the premium skort. but i think whether this is the federal government's issue or a state issue, does this have the effect of discriminating against hispanics? i think that's a very serious question. >> mark, do you think this is going to make it all the way to the supreme court? you look at the last immigration, another big immigration case that went through the corresponds, prop 187 in california made it to the federal appeals court before governor g...

Movements in the united states. prop 187 was the start of the modern republican party trying on super anti-immigrant policies for otherwise mainstream and ambitious republican politicians. when george w. bush tried to be a moderate on immigration, the reason he got no legislation passed through it is because he ran up against that other post-prop 187 pete wilson wing of his own party. pete wilson himself was essentially lost to history and forgotten after his role in the prop 187 con flag rags in california, and for all the fallout that it caused, for all that he did to rip the state apart and...