Yep, I always point to Prop 187 as the tipping point in time.
If we had gotten serious about illegals at that point in time, we could have successfully fixed the issue.
Now it’s too late in my opinion. Yes, we can do a better job of guarding the border and a better job deporting those already here illegally. But we are now 2 generations+ into the invasion now and America is changed forever.
Short of mass deportation California will never again be an American state.
And even then, as you say, it may well be too late.
a reminder
https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_187,_Illegal_Aliens_Ineligible_for_Public_Benefits_(1994)
We went to a popular kids pizza place for my grandson’s birthday. Everywhere I looked....Mexicans. We were definitely the minority.