Restrictionism's Last Stand | The American Conservative

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : " The following year, a Los Angeles Times poll reported that "an overwhelming majority of Californians say they are fed up with illegal immigration."
66% : As the debate rolled on, so did illegal immigration.
66% : Virtually all respondent groups oppose an increased rate of immigration, consider illegal immigration as an important problem," and "support stricter enforcement of immigration laws," the authors found.
66% : Worse than mere death, the law incentivized illegal immigration.
65% : The committee set forth what was essentially a compromise: amnesty for some illegal aliens in exchange for measures to disincentivize further unauthorized immigration by imposing employer sanctions and fraud-proof worker identification.
65% : President Clinton, though he opposed Prop 187, told Californians "it is not wrong for you to want to reduce illegal immigration.
64% : When it was proposed in 1994, the bill was conceived as a way to neutralize some of the incentives for illegal immigration.
64% : The year before those recommendations were submitted, a Gallup poll showed 90 percent of Americans wanted the federal government to go "all out" to stop illegal immigration.
62% : One explanation, the authors postulated, is because they "hold the kinds of jobs for which undocumented workers are unlikely to compete, the leadership may not feel threatened by the presence of undocumented workers and thus feel there is nothing to gain from this provision."
61% : Fuchs saw a divide, Kammer recalls, "between the Mexican-American political class, which resisted limits as it sought political influence, and the concerns of ordinary Mexican-Americans, many of whom were unhappy about illegal immigration.
61% : With the failure of IRCA, farm wages fell, illegal immigration soared, while schools like Jordan and Inglewood High swelled with newcomers.
55% : " By Wilson's estimation, saving just the $1 billion the state spent on educating illegal immigrants in public schools would have allowed California to put a new computer on every fifth grader's desk, provide preschool services to an additional 67,000 four-year-olds, expand Healthy Start Centers to an additional 750 sites, and provide 12.5 million tutorial and mentoring hours to at-risk youth.
53% : Underscoring the urgency, Border Patrol reported 1.8 million arrests on the border for the 1986 fiscal year.
53% : "Immigrant advocates over the last 25 years have pushed an agenda of multi-culturalism in the schools, of affirmative action not just for indigenous minorities but also for newcomers from other countries, and a host of various welfare entitlements for all persons who reside [here]," wrote Linda Chavez, then director of the Center for the New American Community of the Manhattan Institute.
53% : A more serious, muscular, and articulate movement that combines populism and nationalism would likely entice even more Latinos to leave the Democratic Party.
50% : In 1993, American historian John Higham issued a scathing rebuke of anti-restrictionists for undermining reasonable and necessary efforts to stem the tide of illegal immigration.
49% : The recent decline in support for the Black Lives Matter movement is particularly notable among White and Hispanic adults," the Pew Research Center noted in mid-September, after months of rioting.
44% : "Republican efforts to reduce taxes, limit some abortions and fund additional roads and dams had little appeal to the new gentry classes on the coast."
42% : Latino communities bear the brunt of mass immigration, and next to whites, register the most distaste with Black Lives Matter.
41% : "One of the reasons I wanted to come here was to leave behind the lapsed law enforcement, the corruption, the impunity, the colonial mentality prevalent everywhere in Latin America," wrote Jose M. Waechter of Redondo Beach.
38% : As taxes climbed, schools eroded and funds for infrastructure were diverted elsewhere, millions of middle-class Californians fled.
35% : This ill-fated measure would have denied state social services, including education and non-emergency health care, to illegal aliens.
33% : Rising gas prices, sales and income taxes, bad infrastructure, crime, and exorbitant housing costs all drive this exodus. "

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