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.
They literally burned the ballots and declared a free election of the people, illegal.
The results of that epic government intrusion is quite evident from Sacramento to North Carolina.