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How Much Longer?

You have to wonder how much longer the "elites" are going to ignore public opinion on this matter:

Arizona voters back plan on illegals

A poll shows Arizona voters overwhelmingly support a proposed ballot initiative that would cut off services to illegal immigrants, despite a wall of opposition from both Republican and Democratic politicians.

And from this article on Arnold and Prop 54:

Language and illegal immigration are not abstract issues. They are issues that concern millions of Californians. Proposition 187 won by a wide margin in 1994 and according to polls would win with a margin as high or higher if placed on the ballot again. Proposition 227 also won in 1998, a ballot measure that ended most bilingual education in public education, programs that condemned limited English speakers to the lower end of the economic scale. Prop 227 was immediately vindicated as test scores moved up once the bilingual-education impediment was removed. Those are winning issues. They are also topics anathema in the polite society of the country club.

Posted by Ithildin at September 29, 2003 5:22 PM | PROCURE FINE OLD WORLD ABSINTHE