The battle over Proposition 187 pushed California to become a progressive powerhouse. But it also gave Republicans a template with which to win elections across the U.S.
A look back at the events surrounding the 1994 proposition.
No one imagined any of what would become the initiative’s legacy when my classmates left campus en masse one November day. Barbara and Bob Kiley, a husband-and-wife political consultant team from Yorba Linda, had a gadfly friend named Ron Prince who wanted to put a proposition on the California ballot. They said they had Prince stand outside a supermarket with a notepad to try to get signatures for his various causes.
Proposition 187 officially qualified for the election in June 1994 and was coincidentally assigned the same number that California’s penal code designates for murder. “People were working on, like, ‘OK, you’re going to get in contact with Roosevelt High. You’re going to get in contact with kids in Orange County,’” said Ulises Sanchez, a political consultant who was 14 at the time. “‘Then, we’re going to go to class. Then, when it’s time, you walk out.’”My father originally came to this country in the truck of a Chevy in 1968, and sneaked across the border many times afterward.
He was right, at first: Voters overwhelmingly supported Proposition 187, by 59%-41% — a bigger margin of victory than even Wilson got. “You know, Nixon used to talk about the silent majority,” said Peter Nuñez, a former U.S. attorney who helped hammer out the language of Proposition 187. Today, he’s the chairman of the board of directors for the Center for Immigration Studies, a controversial group that favors strong restrictions both against illegal and legal immigration. “I think that silent majority still exists, and that’s why Trump got elected. And immigration was a big part of that.
“But now,” he continued, “I went back, and I counted 36 names. So you talk about impact. You talk about a change. I mean, I’m looking at this board of legislators, I’m like, ‘There it is. It’s right there.’”
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