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TomCADem

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2. Remember Prop 187?

Reply to Shandris (Reply #1)

Sat May 7, 2016, 05:28 PM

May 2016

At the time, it was in vogue for right wing politicians to campaign against services to immigrants. Republican Pete Wilson became Governor by pushing Prop 187 in CA.

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Vox - Paleoconservatism, the movement that explains Donald Trump [View all] TomCADem May 2016 OP

The 90s anti-immigrant panic? What was that? Shandris May 2016 #1

Remember Prop 187? TomCADem May 2016 #2

AHA! Thank you. Now I do indeed remember it, although it didn't get a LOT of mention... Shandris May 2016 #3

LA Times - On immigration, Donald Trump takes a page from Pete Wilson's 1994 playbook TomCADem May 2016 #4