Neocons did their best to defeat this California initiative for not supportingillegal aliens the last time around:

Blogged on VDare, quoting Mort Kondracke from Roll Call in 1994:  
" Credit for Prop 187's swift decline," wrote Mr. Kondracke, "goes mainly to defeated California Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron Unz, who convinced influential national conservatives Bill Kristol, Jack Kemp, and Bill Bennett to come out against it…. Kristol then convinced Bennett at a lunch in New York to reverse his position on 187, and Kemp joined him in leading a charge against it."

[Note: Bill Kristol is the son of neoconservative grand-daddy Irving Kristol and editor of the extreme right Weekly Standard. He co-founded the Project for a New American Century, the organization that started pushing preemptive military attacks by the US, particularly against Iraq, during the 1990s. He was Dan Quayle's chief of staff during the first Bush administration, and held a similar position under William Bennett during the Reagan years. I don't know why he felt he had to interfere with California's illegal alien policy.]

With homeland security a major issue, maybe the neocons will have the sense to stay out of it this time.

Background:

The 2000 Census says there are 2,200,000 illegal aliens, a third of the national total, in California. (Many think that's low and that there are at least as many as 12 million illegals in the US.) The non-partisan California Legislative Analyst's Office says about $1 billion is spent by the state on health care for illegals. Another $550 million goes for jailing and supervising parole of illegals (the feds cover only $150 million of that). And at least $2.6 billion goes on education of about 450,000 illegal children in California schools. 84,000 children who were born in the US and are citizens are not included in that last figure.

That adds up to an annual cost of $4 billion, so Californians came up with Proposition 187 to eliminate the cost of suporting illegal aliens. Note that we're not talking about "immigrants" and not "undocumented" anythings - we're talking about people who are here illegally and are illegal aliens. From the perspective of a Californian, my not paying to support them seems eminently reasonable.