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Originally Posted by CA4Now

Read up on Prop 187.

A U.S. District Court judge has declared most of California's Proposition 187 unconstitutional.

Approved by voters in 1994, the proposition would have denied health care, education and welfare benefits to illegal immigrants. Almost immediately, Judge Mariana Pfaelzer granted its opponents' request for a restraining order, which prevented it from taking effect.

In her final ruling, Pfaelzer rejected California's attempt to regulate immigration, which she said is the federal government's responsibility.

Judge Pfaelzer's ruling strikes down portions of the initiative that would have required law enforcement, teachers, social service and health care workers to verify a person's immigration status. Under Proposition 187, they would have had to report illegals to authorities and to deny them social service, health care and education benefits.

Most Of California's Prop. 187 Ruled Unconstitutional - March 19, 1998

That was just the first ruling. Don't leave out the fact that Gray Davis effectively ended it by bringing it to mediation and withdrawing the appeal before the ninth-circuit heard it.