After Trump's victory, the Latino backlash against Prop. 187 and the subsequent Democratic takeover of California looks more ...
People gather for a rally and concert to protest Proposition 187 at East Los Angeles College on Oct. 30, 1994. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times) To the editor: Reading Gustavo Arellano's column ...
Earlier this year, the Latino Caucus kicked out State Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil, R-Jackson, for switching from the Democratic ...
In November 1994, immigrants and their families found themselves under siege as California voters overwhelmingly passed into law Proposition 187, a ballot initiative that sought to deny basic social ...
The proposition intended to prohibit undocumented immigrants from accessing state services including public education and health care.
We tell ourselves stories in order to live, Joan Didion famously wrote, and the one Democrats in California repeated for decades was Proposition 187. Californians of a certain age can recite it by ...
To the editor: Reading Gustavo Arellano’s column on living in a “Prop. 187 America” and seeing the photograph of protesters in 1994 reminded me of my life at that time. I was teaching ...