Sorry, incorrect.
He found the time, but didn't recieve the notoriety that Kemp and Bennet did. I'll flag you when the quotes come in.
Here's one of the quoteless references I mentioned (from an admirer, BTW)...
"...he supported the bailout, in the peso bailout. He also rejected Proposition 187 in California, neither of which was hard in Texas but was very hard in the national context, and this was a guy who had national ambitions at the time."
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I opposed Proposition 187 in California. When Social Security reform ended federal food assistance to immigrant seniors, I was the only governor in the country to cover the cost.
October 20 - October 26 AsianWeek.com
"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."Still looking for concurrent quotes though, in case you don't take the President at his word.
Interesting, though, that Bush misrepresents the "spirit" of 187 here, since children weren't going to be kept out of taxpayer-funded schools for the status of their parents, but for their own. That is, children who themselves were Illegal would not be entitled to public education in California.