[Joe Hadenuf]

"I was against the spirit of . . . [Proposition 187] for my state," Bush said of the 1994 California measure. "I felt like every child ought to be educated, regardless of the status of their parents." Dallas Morning News, 6/30/99, p. 23A.

Was this a result of a Dallas Morning News search, or from another site?

[Sabertooth]

Was this a result of a Dallas Morning News search, or from another site?

I got it from the asianam.org site at #6.

Here's another reference to that quote, via the Washington Post (and courtesy of UncleBill)...

Against the spirit of CA Proposition 187

During his first campaign swing through California in June, Bush said he was “against the spirit” of Proposition 187-which in part would prevent illegal immigrants from attending public schools-and would not have supported a similar measure for Texas. “I felt like every child ought to be educated regardless of the status of their parents,” he said.
Source: David Von Drehle, The Washington Post Oct 15, 1999
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Here again we see Bush misrepresenting 187 as a measure that would deny children an education based on the status of their parents.

Can't remember, did the L.A. Times ever try to sell that particular snake oil in their ongoing slanders of 187?