The same prop Bush Jr. bad mouthed while he was spending his Daddy’s money in Texas, while they where ramping him up for political office.
We all know how that worked out.
Proposition 187 had been a mainly Republican effort, but even some prominent national Republicans opposed it as being bad for their party. Others quietly distanced themselves from anti-immigrant talk. One such politician was George W. Bush who successfully ran for governor of Texas in 1996 on a platform sympathetic to immigrants. Bush got a large share of the Hispanic vote both then and in his successful bid for the U.S. presidency in 2000.
And tried in 2006 to ram "comprehensive immigration reform" through with the help of other Washingtonians such as McCain and Kennedy.