Although I inadvertently didn't italicize that sentence, those are Amused's words. Perhaps a ping to him to your post #845 would be in order, as well.
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Hooey. We were the first state to pass laws limiting benefits to illegal immigrants, and Republican's in this state have been paying, rightly or wrongly, the price for Pete Wilson campaigning on behalf of Prop 187 ever since. Before Prop 187, latino's hardly voted in large number (except probably Republican latinos), after Prop 187 passed Latino activists organized, and handed a large number of votes to the Democrats. Latino voters, who vote Democrat, have forever changed the political landscape in California, and THAT is the reason NOT white elitist liberals, that California remains a stronghold for Democrats.
Furthermore, it's not the state's responsibility to enforce Federal borders.
Finally, the rest of the country could give a crap that California was being overrun by illegals until we reached the saturation point, and they started invading the South, Midwest and Northeast.
Precisely my point. If California couldn't control their own puny border with Mexico with Reagan as gov and President who had the greatest popularity in modern history, how do you expect Bush to as he is one of the weakest in popularity? I personally have no problem with spreading all of our nuclear waste along the border making it deadly for 10,000 years, but the political reality is much different and unless something is done to try and convert these guys to citizens we will eventually be faced with ceding California back to Mexico.