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...bars illegal immigrants from public schools. The judge said 187 conflicts with a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court ruling requiring states to provide a public education to all residents. State Attorney General Dan Lungren vowed to fight the judge all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. As-yet unchallenged: Prop 187 provisions to cut off health care to illegal immigrants, plus requirements that doctors and nurses turn them...
...spite of liberal rhetoric to the contrary, we have to look after the needs of our own people first. Clearly there is a need for Prop 187. Just because an individual manages to slip across the U.S. border, in full violation of the law, doesn't mean he or she is automatically entitled to all the privileges of a U.S. citizen. We as a nation have the right to deny social services to criminals who break our laws and arrive here illegally...
...efforts by the liberal establishment to label Prop 187 as illegal and the card system as fascist are little more than sorry attempts at scaring voters through catch-phrases and hollow rhetoric--McCarthyism at its worst...
Drastic times demand drastic measures. Prop 187, and Wilson's plan for documentation, are the only effective solution we have to the problem of illegal immigration. It is a justifiable means to a most desirable...
...Prop. 187 would also require teachers and other public officials to report suspected illegal immigrants to authorities. "People who just happen to look like they're from a different ethnic background will probably be stopped on the street and questioned," said Miriam T. Burgos '98, who is from California. Recent state polls have indicated that the vote on Prop. 187 is too close to call...