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The Nativist Campaign, The Impact on the Latino Community, and the Future
The topic of my presentation certainly has been in the spotlight
over the last year. California's Proposition 187 was an initiative
passed by the voters by a 59-41% margin. If implemented, the
initiative would bar state and local governments in California
from providing non-emergency health care and social services
and public education to undocumented immigrants. It would further
require California law enforcement, health and social service
agencies, and public school officials to report persons suspected
of being undocumented to the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
There was much media hoopla surrounding the Proposition 187
campaign in the fall of 1994. The initiative received national
attention. The true test of this was that the New York Times
ran an editorial on the subject. Even a couple of prominent national
Republicans, Jack Kemp and Bill Bennett, publicly announced their
opposition to the measure. I will attempt to analyze three discrete aspects of Proposition
187 in this report: (1) the racial undercurrent to the campaign;
(2) the disparate impact that the measure may have on certain
immigrant communities; and (3) the legal challenges to Proposition
187 that in all likelihood will ultimately be addressed by the
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