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 ...
About 200 students gathered at Fresno State University in October 1994 to protest Proposition 187, which was on the ballot that November. The proposition to deny undocumented immigrants public ...
In the summer of 1993, Heidy Sarabia and her family left Mexico City in search of the American Dream. By the next year, that dream was nearly shattered as the family settled in Sacramento. The family ...
California has the nation’s largest population of undocumented immigrants with roughly 1.8 million people. Over the last three decades, Californians’ attitudes about that fact have undergone an ...
187: The Rise of the Latino Vote tells the story of Proposition 187, the 1994 attempt to block undocumented people from public services, and how it was ultimately defeated. Among other things, Prop ...
In 1994, a 26-year-old Alex Padilla, sporting a newly minted engineering degree from MIT, was back at home living with his parents in the San Fernando Valley when that fall’s most heated ballot ...
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