The California Mafia blog reports on a voter initiative sponsored by state Assemblyman Ray Haynes to establish a California Border Patrol:

The Assemblyman said that the CBP would be a comprehensive uniformed agency with sworn officers that would be charged with enforcing state and federal laws regarding immigration. As he said, one of the major problems right now in California is that the federal Border Patrol does very little beyond the actual border. The CBP would be used for "interior enforcement" of laws.

Haynes expressed confidence that "the governor would enforce the law if it passes." Looks like last year's controversy over the DHS' immensely successful -- and abruptly cancelled -- interior round-ups may finally be coming home to roost...

The initiative's text can be found here. There's more information at the initiative's home site.

Update:

Sac Bee political columnist Dan Weintraub writes (May 12, registration free):

Haynes holds out little hope that his proposal will be approved in the Legislature, where it would take a two-thirds vote in each house to place it on the ballot. But he has enlisted the help of Rescue California, the political committee behind the 2003 recall of former Gov. Gray Davis, to help him gather signatures. And the consultant who ran that signature gathering operation, David Gilliard, is filling the same role for this effort.

[...] Unlike Proposition 187, which sought to deny public services to illegal immigrants, the border police proposal seeks only to more effectively enforce current law. It will be difficult for opponents to demonize that concept.

Haynes has a long way to go to qualify his proposal for the ballot. But my sense is that if it qualifies, his proposal will probably be approved.

This is certainly a story to watch.