He made lots of noise, but did nothing to cure the problem of illegal voter registrations, much less illegal immigration. The State and Local Police were told they had no rights in dealing with illegals. Citizens wanted the National Guard on the border. Wilson wanted more illegal pickers for his pals in Fresno. Why it never occurs to anyone that the areas of California with 40% unemployment, like Watts, cannot provide pickers is beyond me.
Under Wilson, illegal aliens became state and municipal employees. He never got the money from the Federal Government to offset the costs imposed by these border bounders on the California budget. $7.5 BILLION in his day, more now.
It was giant exercise in hypocrisy. I greatly fear that Bush, another State Governor with a record of shame in this regard, has upped Wilson's spinelessness to the Federal level.
BTW, California's first governor was a Mexican and a Republican. But I will bet you many Aztlan pesos this will not ever happen again. I will also bet you that within 150 years, the Governor of California will be appointed in Mexico City.
The African American community bears a great deal of the economic injury wrought by illegal / mass immigration. Illegals will do jobs at the bottom of the pay scale in competition with Af. Ams. And they'll do the jobs for less, everytime. They drive down the wages of industries in which Af Ams. formerly received much employment. Then immigration proponents call these jobs "work that Americans won't do".