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PHOENIX — A state Senate committee approved a bill late Tuesday designed to set up a Supreme Court case on automatic citizenship for illegal immigrants’ children born in the U.S.
The bill and a companion law setting up a birth certificate compact among states passed on a 8-5 vote.
The Appropriations Committee was planning to debate a much more sweeping bill that that targets illegal immigrants in housing, public benefits and the workplace late into the evening.
The bill was introduced by a Republican lawmaker, and the vote on the citizenship bill broke along party lines, with only one Republican opposing it. It now goes to the full Senate for debate.
