Prop 187

Proposition 187 was an initiative that had been brought up in the California in 1994. The initiative designed to deny illegal immigrants social services, health care, and public education. Its main supporter was Governor Wilson fighting against Illegal immigrant rights within the U.S. Opponents included State Senator Art Torres, who referred to Prop. 187 as "the last gasp of white America in California."

Several thousands of Latinos protested the proposition in the streets in organized marches to defeat the proposition.

The proposition came before voters in the November 8, 1994 general election, where it was approved. By the next day the law came into affect. The law was challenged to see if it was consitutional or not and to challenege state law with federal laws. There were many appeals for the law and in However, in 1998, before the judges could rule, newly elected Democratic Gov. Gray Davis had the case brought before mediation. Following this, he dropped the appeals process before the courts, effectively killing the law.



In the book, Fluid Borders, it notes that these type of proposition not only attack illegal immigrants, but also considered and anti-latino in cutting off valuable resources to young children that wern't at fault. In the video we watched on wednesday they had said thay they weren't targeting children, but the ones most affected were the children. The resources it was going to remove were health care and public education, but good thing they weren't targeting the children because they are the ones most affected by these resources. Diane; the teacher from the movie said she blamed the family for the all the mishaps that occur within the childs failures. That she wouls do things different if she were in their shoes. I don't believe we could say that because if she legal then there is no way she can be in their shoes nor can she blame the parents that work heavily hours.

In the movie people were led to believe that their Economic problems will be solved if the proposition would pass. Illegal immigrants are also Economic and political refugees fleeing from their countries. The only diffrence between illegal immigrants is that the government gets to decide who is a refugee and who isn't.

It's the government who allows immigrants to come in becuase it is good for the economical labor pool. During the WWII the govenrment had established a program that would allow thousands of Mexicans into the country eith a workers contract. This program was known as the Bracero program as economic aid to the U.S. while soldiers were overseas. Immigrants are blamed for some of societies worst problems that are draining the nations resources acording to the book Walls and Mirrors. Who is at fault the government that allows a certain time when illegals can come in and then try to send them back. The government contrdict themselves in so many ways that they shouldn't blame illegal immigrants for the problems the government has caused.