Includes bibliographical references ([231]-277) and index.
Introduction -- Learning from history -- The early politicization of the illegal-immigration issue -- The increasing salience of illegal immigration and the qualification of Proposition 187 -- The campaign -- The judicial death of Proposition 187 -- The legislative revival of Proposition 187 -- Immigration politics at century's end -- Immigration politics in a new century.
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"This book tells the story of the Republican Party's flirtation with immigration politics over the last two decades. In the 1990s, the Party was closely associated with an anti-immigration discourse and especially Proposition 187, a high-profile California initiative to bar illegal immigrants from public services. The selection of George W. Bush as the Party's presidential nominee, however, represented an new direction as leading strategists sought to appeal to the increasingly influential Latino electorate by pushing pro-immigration policies, including the legalization of over ten million illegal immigrants. That Bush's liberal reform agenda was ultimately dashed by conservative Republican hardliners demonstrates the Party has not yet resolved the ideological and political tensions wrought by this most contentious of issues."--BOOK JACKET.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Republican Party (Estados Unidos)
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Republican Party, USA
Illegal aliens-- Government policy-- California.
Illegal aliens-- Government policy-- United States.
Einwanderungspolitik
Emigración e inmigración-- Política gubernamental-- Estados Unidos.
Emigrantes clandestinos-- Política gubernamental-- Estados Unidos.
Emigration and immigration-- Government policy.
Illegal aliens-- Government policy.
Illegale Einwanderung
California, Emigration and immigration, Government policy.
United States, Emigration and immigration, Government policy.