We tell ourselves stories in order to live, Joan Didion famously wrote, and the one Democrats in California repeated for decades was Proposition 187. Californians of a certain age can recite it by ...

People gather for a rally and concert to protest Proposition 187 at East Los Angeles College on Oct. 30, 1994. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times) To the editor: Reading Gustavo Arellano's column ...

With the dust barely settled on the 2024 election in California, the biggest political players in the state are constructing ...

Trump says on Jan. 20, he'll launch mass deportation of undocumented immigrants called 'Operation Aurora.' How can I give ...

Proposition 187 and battles over illegal immigration are rapidly ceasing to define a Latino electorate that is increasingly U.S.-born and concerned about the economy.

Thirty years ago, California’s anti-immigrant Proposition 187 caused Latinos to coalesce into a voting bloc. Author and political consultant Mike Madrid says it was a mistake to believe these ...

About 200 students gathered at Fresno State University in October 1994 to protest Proposition 187, which was on the ballot that November. The proposition to deny undocumented immigrants public ...

The rightward drift among Latino voters is a nationwide phenomenon, but it has particular symbolic weight in California, where the backlash to Proposition 187, the initiative targeting immigrants ...

Students gather at Fresno State in October 1994 to protest Proposition 187, which would deny illegal immigrants public education, social services and non-emergency health care. The rally concluded ...

Students protest Proposition 187 as a school bus returns them to school following a walkout in 1994. (Scott Markowitz / Los Angeles Times) Thirty years ago this fall, California’s Latino voters ...