Prop 187 prohibited illegal immigrants from using public healthcare and public education in California.
It was found to be unconstitutional by a federal court, according to Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prop_187
"California Proposition 187 (also known as the Save Our State initiative) was a 1994 ballot initiative designed to prohibit illegal immigrants from using social services, health care, and public education in the U.S. State of California. It was initially passed by the voters but later found unconstitutional by a federal court."
Proposition 187 included the following key elements[1]:
- All law enforcement agents who suspect that a person who has been arrested is in violation of immigration laws must investigate the detainee's immigration status, and if they find evidence of illegality they must report it to the attorney general of California, and to the federal Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).
- Local governments are prohibited from doing anything to impair the fulfillment of this requirement.
- The attorney general must keep records on all such cases and make them available to any other government entity that wishes to inspect them.
- No one may receive public benefits until they have proven their legal right to reside in the country.
- If government agents suspected anyone applying for benefits of being illegal immigrants, the agents must report their suspicions in writing to the appropriate enforcement authorities.
- Emergency medical care is exempted, as required by federal law, but all other medical benefits have the requirements stated above.
- Primary and secondary education is explicitly included.
Basically, the voters passed the above with nearly 60% of the vote, and a single Jimmy Carter-appointed Federal judge overruled the will of the people. Then-Gov. Pete Wilson appealed it to the 9th Circuit, but his replacement, DemocRAT bastard Gray Davis, killed the appeal. Come to think of it, this may have been the point in which the speed of our country's unraveling began to increase (and the moment when I truly began to despise DemocRATs). "Unconstitutional" to keep illegal aliens from receiving government benefits - imagine that!