"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... [Judge Mariana 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."  CNN, 1998.