“Actually it is about $10 billion in Kalifornia.”
IOW a significant fraction of the budget deficit is due to illegal immigrant benefits, once voted to be illegal in Proposition 187.
Probably a lot of the people who voted YES on Prop. 187 have subsequently moved out of the state, because the ballot doesn’t work anymore.
Issue after issue gets voted on, only to be overturned by judges.
That was not part of our constitution.