billion a year, with California accounting for a little over half of that" (To the rescue 35).
In the absence of reliable statistics, estimates of the number of illegal aliens in California have varied. Rosen said that a 1994 Urban Institute study determined that there were 1.4 million (24). The Economist estimated there were 2.1 million (To the rescue 35). Buckley used a figure of four million (78). Illegal immigrants are largely (86 percent) in seven states, California, Florida, Texas, New York, Arizona, Illinois and New Jersey (Rosen 24). Based on the numbers of illegal aliens apprehended at the border, a rough measure of the invasion from the South, the wave of illegal immigrants was in the 100,000 to 200,000 range in the 1980s and in 1995, because of the recent economic difficulties of Mexico, may have reached as many as 400,000 people, most of whom came from Mexico and other Central American countries (Solis A 11).
Proposition 187 contains the following key procedural and substantive pr
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