1994
California’s Proposition 187 targets undocumented immigrants’ access to services
California; undocumented immigrants and Latino communities
California voters approved Proposition 187, an initiative designed to deny undocumented immigrants access to public education and many public services and to require status reporting. Opponents organized large demonstrations and legal challenges. The measure placed immigrant families’ access to basic institutions at the center of state politics.
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Context / qualification
Major provisions were blocked in federal court; voter approval did not mean that the proposed exclusions took full effect. The ACLU source is an account by a legal challenger, while the ballot repository supplies the initiative summary.
Sources
- Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, chapter 24, pp. 666–667; supplied print pages, edition/year unidentified
- UC Law San Francisco: Proposition 187 ballot pamphlet record ↗
- ACLU: Proposition 187 litigation settlement and chronology (1999) ↗