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Article: Two states of mind about those southern neighbours.(American Survey)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- July 13, 1996
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SAN FRANCISCO AND AUSTIN
CALIFORNIA and Texas are both huge, important states; both border Mexico; both have big Latino communities, mostly of Mexican origin. Both have Republican governors; both brag of military-sounding programmes to catch Mexicans coming into America, called respectively "Operation Gatekeeper" and "Operation Hold the Line". One would expect their attitudes towards immigration to be identical across the board. Not so.
Pete Wilson, the governor of California, made his name on the national stage as a foe of illegal immigration. So fierce was Mr Wilson in his successful 1994 campaign for Proposition 187, a ballot initiative to strip many ...