Barbara Coe, the anti-immigration activist and founder of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform (CCIR), died Saturday at the age of 79, according to The Orange County Register.
The cause of death was lung cancer.
Coe co-sponsored California’s Proposition 187 in 1994, the same year she founded the CCIR. The measure barred undocumented immigrants from social services like public health care and education. Prop. 187 was passed by voters, but later held up in court.
According to The Southern Poverty Law Center, Coe’s attention in recent years had focused more on a shadowy “globalist” conspiracy.
“Our research revealed that illegal aliens are the ground troops needed by Bush Jr. and his globalist buddies for the ultimate death of America,” Coe declared at a rally in 2007, according to the SPLC.
