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California Proposition 187 (also known as the Save Our State (SOS) initiative) was a 1994 ballot initiative to establish a state-run citizenship screening system and prohibit illegal immigrants from using non-emergency health care, public education, and other services in the State of California. Voters passed the proposed law at a referendum on ...
Proposition 215 (1996) Passed: Legalizing medical marijuana under California law. Proposition 218 (1996) Passed: Right to vote on local taxes; assessment and property-related fee reforms; initiative power expansion in regard to local revenue reduction or repeal. Constitutional follow-up to Proposition 13 (1978). Proposition 22 (2000)
The salience of Proposition 187 for Latinos is finally fading. The economic populism and assimilation of younger, U.S.-born Latino voters is overwhelming the concerns of naturalized immigrant voters.
The fast-growing electorate is changing both within the state and across the country, shifting from immigration to economic concerns.
More than 200 UCLA students march in protest of Prop. 187 in 1994, the ballot measure that sought to make life miserable for undocumented immigrants in California and passed with nearly two-thirds ...
The group takes its name from California's 1994 Proposition 187, known as the "Save Our State" initiative. [citation needed] The proposition, which would have denied taxpayer-funded health care and education to undocumented residents of California, was approved by a majority of voters in 1994 but was immediately challenged in court and was eventually struck down by a US district court four ...
The CCIR was a co-sponsor of California Proposition 187 (1994), which would have stopped public services such as education to illegal immigrants with public taxmoney. [5] The proposition was approved by the electorate but overturned as unconstitutional by a federal court. [6]
Florida's SB 1718 is a political grandchild of California's Prop. 187. But don't count on Latinos in the Sunshine State going Democrat the way Latinos did in the Golden State.