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House Roll Call 271, 100th Congress · July 28, 1987

TO PASS HR 618, DISPLACED SALVADORANS AND NICARAGUANS, A BILL TO SUSPEND DEPORTATION FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS FROM EL SALVADOR AND NICARAGUA FOR A PERIOD OF APPROXIMATELY TWO YEARS UNTIL SUCH TIME AS CONDITIONS ALLOW THEM TO RETURN TO THEIR NATIVE COUNTRY. WHILE IN THE UNITED STATES, THEY WOULD NOT BE ELIGIBLE FOR MOST FORMS OF FEDERAL ASSISTANCE.

237 yea · 181 nay11 not voting or present
Democrat203 yea · 37 nay
Republican35 yea · 144 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 618 ↗

Central American Studies and Temporary Relief Act of 1987

Policy area: Immigration — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

  • ImmigrationA yea counts toward “Expansive”

    model(0.95): Suspends deportation for illegal aliens, providing temporary expansive protection from removal.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Immigration

    Axis: Expansive ← → Restrictive

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (240)

Nay (182)

Not voting or present (11)

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