Actually, multi-generational Californians of any stripe are rare, so I can only speak for the people in my family I talk to. I am the only one of a half dozen family members that tentatively supports it. My wife doesn't count, her family came to CA in a Covered Wagon...her Grandmother led the Wagon Train! (We still have her Pocket Pistol! The rocking chair she sat in for the journey was in the Pioneer Museum in Jackson, CA, last we checked)
I say tentatively, because something has to be done, and I think identification of the Illegals that are here is the first step. I also like the fine and background check part of the proposal.
But, knowing some folks on the "other" side of the fence, I predict that the "criminal" alien and some not so criminal; the just paranoid; will stay away from this in droves and we'll still have the same problem.
Ah yes, the old reductio ad absurdum. One of the few things we have in common is our Immigrant Heritage. I ofter wonder what tales will be told to Grand Children in the future? Or do people even do that any more?
Your's is one of the most honest, sincere, and realistic answers I've seen on this subject in the hundreds I've been able to review.
Give your mamma a great big hug for all of us!
Oops, I am informed that should be my Wife's Great-Great Grand Mother.
Cost me a dinner.