Neocons did their best to defeat this California initiative for not supporting
illegal 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.
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