Mr. President. we will soon begin a debate on the conference report entitled "Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996." I am concerned that. when we commence that debate. we are not going to be in as advanced a position as we should be. for several reasonstwo in particular. One of those is that. when this legislation was considered in the House of Representatives. a provision was attached which would have given to individual States the prerogative of denying public education. elementary and secondary education. to the children of illegal immigrants. That provision became so inflammatory that it tended to focus total attention on this legislation on that single provision. That provision has now been eliminated.
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