Judge makes hiring and housing illegals legal

[red states rule]

Once again, a liberal Judge has tossed out the votes of the people and allows illegals to go unchecked.

Now, businesses and housing can't discriminate against people who are in this country illegally.


Judge Blocks City's Ordinances Against Illegal Immigration

By Darryl Fears
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 27, 2007; Page A02

A federal judge issued a permanent injunction yesterday against restrictive anti-illegal-immigration ordinances in Hazleton, Pa., a city described by its mayor as "the toughest place on illegal immigrants in America."

In a strongly worded opinion handed down at the U.S. District Court in Scranton, Pa., Judge James M. Munley ruled that federal law "prohibits Hazleton from enforcing any of the provisions of its ordinances," which impose a $1,000-per-day fine on landlords who rent to illegal immigrants, revoke the business license of any employer who hires them, declare English as the official language and bar city employees from translating documents to another language without approval.

Civil liberties organizations sued on behalf of illegal and legal immigrant plaintiffs, including the Hazleton Hispanic Business Association, saying that the city infringed on the federal government's sole authority to regulate immigration.

The groups hailed the ruling as a historic victory for the city's Latino residents, as well as a warning to state and local governments that copied Hazleton's ordinances and to opponents of illegal immigration, who Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said "dupe local officials into adopting bad public policy that won't stand up in court."

But the opponents vowed to appeal the decision and to continue the fight to the Supreme Court, if necessary. "Attorneys have already drafted appeal briefs," said Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform. Seeking to severely restrict immigration, the group strongly supported Hazleton's ordinances.

In a statement, Hazleton Mayor Louis J. Barletta said: "This fight is far from over. I have said it many times before: Hazleton is not going to back down. We are discouraged to see a federal judge has decided -- wrongly, we believe -- that Hazleton and cities like it around the nation cannot enact legislation to protect their citizens, their services, and their budgets."

Hazleton made national headlines last year by passing some of the nation's strictest ordinances against illegal immigration, saying that illegal immigrants were draining city coffers but without producing evidence. About 100 similar measures were passed nationwide, some of which have been successfully challenged by immigration supporters, civil rights advocates said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/27/AR2007072700318.html

 

[red states rule]

This Clinton-appointed judge is trying to bring it to the Supreme Court

 

[Gunny]

Once again, a liberal Judge has tossed out the votes of the people and allows illegals to go unchecked.

Now, businesses and housing can't discriminate against people who are in this country illegally.


Judge Blocks City's Ordinances Against Illegal Immigration

By Darryl Fears
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 27, 2007; Page A02

A federal judge issued a permanent injunction yesterday against restrictive anti-illegal-immigration ordinances in Hazleton, Pa., a city described by its mayor as "the toughest place on illegal immigrants in America."

In a strongly worded opinion handed down at the U.S. District Court in Scranton, Pa., Judge James M. Munley ruled that federal law "prohibits Hazleton from enforcing any of the provisions of its ordinances," which impose a $1,000-per-day fine on landlords who rent to illegal immigrants, revoke the business license of any employer who hires them, declare English as the official language and bar city employees from translating documents to another language without approval.

Civil liberties organizations sued on behalf of illegal and legal immigrant plaintiffs, including the Hazleton Hispanic Business Association, saying that the city infringed on the federal government's sole authority to regulate immigration.

The groups hailed the ruling as a historic victory for the city's Latino residents, as well as a warning to state and local governments that copied Hazleton's ordinances and to opponents of illegal immigration, who Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said "dupe local officials into adopting bad public policy that won't stand up in court."

But the opponents vowed to appeal the decision and to continue the fight to the Supreme Court, if necessary. "Attorneys have already drafted appeal briefs," said Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform. Seeking to severely restrict immigration, the group strongly supported Hazleton's ordinances.

In a statement, Hazleton Mayor Louis J. Barletta said: "This fight is far from over. I have said it many times before: Hazleton is not going to back down. We are discouraged to see a federal judge has decided -- wrongly, we believe -- that Hazleton and cities like it around the nation cannot enact legislation to protect their citizens, their services, and their budgets."

Hazleton made national headlines last year by passing some of the nation's strictest ordinances against illegal immigration, saying that illegal immigrants were draining city coffers but without producing evidence. About 100 similar measures were passed nationwide, some of which have been successfully challenged by immigration supporters, civil rights advocates said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/27/AR2007072700318.html

That's bullshit, and it is in direct contradiction to the law. By definition, illegal immigrants have no "status" but that of illegal immigrants, and are entitled to NOTHING.

 

[red states rule]

That's bullshit, and it is in direct contradiction to the law. By definition, illegal immigrants have no "status" but that of illegal immigrants, and are entitled to NOTHING.

The only thing illegals are entitled to is to be sent back to their home country and to remain silent when arrested

 

[ScreamingEagle]

The only thing illegals are entitled to is to be sent back to their home country and to remain silent when arrested

Of course the anti-American ACLU is right smack in the middle of this.

The American Civil Liberties Union, on behalf of 11 plaintiffs, including four undocumented aliens who went by aliases, challenged the ordinance in federal court, insisting that city officials were using the Hispanic community as scapegoats for social ills.

"This decision should be a blaring red stoplight for local officials thinking of copying Hazleton's misguided and unconstitutional law," said Witold Walczak, a lawyer for the ACLU who is representing the plaintiffs.
...
In a 206-page ruling, U.S. District Judge James Munley found that Hazleton's ordinance that would have penalized city businesses that hire illegal immigrants and landlords who rent to them was unconstitutional because the federal government alone crafts and enforces immigration policies.

"The genius of our Constitution is that it provides rights even to those who evoke the least sympathy from the general public. In that way, all in this nation can be confident of equal justice under its laws," Munley wrote. "Hazleton, in its zeal to control the presence of a group deemed undesirable, violated the rights of such people, as well as others within the community."

http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/newsbyid.asp?id=71892&cat=Politics+News&more=%2Fpolitics/

 

[Annie]

That's bullshit, and it is in direct contradiction to the law. By definition, illegal immigrants have no "status" but that of illegal immigrants, and are entitled to NOTHING.

Yep, they aren't 'victims' which seems to be the new spin.

 

[trobinett]

I sure don't know what the answers are, don't really know what the questions are, but I DO know what is facing this nation, and that is an invasion.

At this point in time the "native Americans" are losing, sound familiar?

History DOES repeat itself..............Deal with it.

 

[Alpha1]

Of course the anti-American ACLU is right smack in the middle of this.

Another example of how the ACLU is using our own Constitution against us...and its perfectly legal...the federal government refusing to enforce the laws it has written and interrupted to prevent local government from enforcing federal law.... a catch 22 if ever I saw one.....the ACLU is slick...and has the lefties believing it works to enforce our....get that OUR civil rights, while in reality it destroys OUR civil rights....

 

[Waterrescuedude]

Hunting licenses at the broders. I guarantee it would stop illegals and terrorists alike from crossing. Do you know what mexico does to the illegals coming from south america trying to get to america?? There immigrants are beaten raped robbed and more. This judge needs to be deported or at least kicked off the bench.