Immigration Debate Turns Right As Hard Data Confirm Anecdotes by Victor Davis Hanson

In the spring of 2002, I wrote an essay about growing up in California's San Joaquin Valley and witnessing firsthand, especially over the last 20 years, the ill effects of illegal immigration. Controversy over my blunt assessment of the disaster of illegal immigration from Mexico led to an expanded memoir, 'Mexifornia,' published the following year.
'Mexifornia' came out during the ultimately successful campaign to recall California Gov. Gray Davis in autumn 2003.
A popular public gripe was that the embattled governor had appeased both employers and the more radical Hispanic politicians of the California Legislature on illegal immigration. And indeed Davis had signed legislation allowing driver's licenses for illegal aliens that both houses of state government had passed.
So it was no wonder that the book sometimes found its way into both the low and high forms of the political debate.
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