Right wing anti-immigrant initiative appears destined for failure

Heartening news from the Yakima Herald Republic:

A massive last-ditch effort is being made to try to get an initiative to halt government benefits for undocumented immigrants on the ballot this fall, the prime sponsor says.

With fewer than half the signatures that likely will be needed on petitions for Initiative 966 to date, however, there is little chance the measure will go to a vote of the people, said Mathew S. Manweller, a political science professor and specialist in initiatives and direct democracy at Central Washington University.

"They're dead in the water," Manweller told the Yakima Herald-Republic.

Denying care to people, even if they're not in this country legally, is unacceptable public policy. It's how the right wing thinks, but that's not the American way or the American tradition. It's good to see that once again, this bad idea will bite the dust.