TITLE

House bows to Clinton, passes weakened immigration law

PUB. DATE

October 1996

SOURCE

Human Events;10/04/96, Vol. 52 Issue 37, p4

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Reports on the US House of Representatives' vote to pass an immigration reform bill that has been stripped of a amendment that would have allowed states to deny a taxpayer-funded public education to illegal aliens not already enrolled in American schools. Conservatives' criticism against Senator Alan Simpson for helping delete the amendment.

ACCESSION #

9610250494

Tags: EMIGRATION & immigration law -- United States;  UNITED States. Congress. House;  SIMPSON, Alan

 

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