California Proposition 187 free essay sample

Examines initiative as effort to control illegal immigration, focusing on positive social and economic implications effects. Background, provisions, legal policy merits, court rulings, implementation, public views. On November 8, 1994, California voters enacted ballot Proposition 187, a measure that denies illegal immigrants access to public education and to all health services save emergency care. The winning margin was 59 percent. Although implementation of the measure was blocked by an injunction on November 16, scarcely a week after the vote, the measure has already had a number of reported effects, ranging from increased racial harassment of Latinos to the failure of an anticipated increase in illegal immigration from the interior of Mexico to materialize, in spite of that countrys economic crisis. More generally, the controversy over Proposition 187, which was only sharpened by passage of the measure, has brought