In 1994, California voters passed Proposition 187, which sought to deny basic services to illegal immigrants. The controversial initiative (which was never implemented, as the courts declared it to be unconstitutional) was the canary in the coal mine for the rest of the nation on the topic of illegal immigration.

Within a decade, states and counties all over the nation were competing to see who could create the harshest anti-immigrant proposal.

But the latest Field Poll should alert the rest of the country about how swiftly the voters can change their minds on illegal immigration – and what that shift will mean for the nation’s politics.

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