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Title: Texas Town OKs Anti-Immigration Measures
Source: My Way News
URL Source: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061114/D8LCK8100.html
Published: Nov 14, 2006
Author: ANABELLE GARAY
Post Date: 2006-11-14 07:36:38 by noone222
Ping List: *The Border*
Keywords: None
Views: 369
Comments: 12

FARMERS BRANCH, Texas (AP) - Leaders of this Dallas suburb unanimously approved tough new anti-immigration measures Monday evening, including one that makes English the official language.

In a series of 6-0 votes, the city council without discussion approved fines for landlords that deal with illegal immigrants, and decided to allow local authorities to screen suspects in police custody to see whether they are in the country illegally.

With the votes, the city became the first municipality in Texas to enact such strong anti-immigrant laws. Such ordinances have troubled many people in the state, where many Latino families can trace their roots to the era before statehood.

More than 50 municipalities nationwide have considered, passed or rejected similar laws.

(AP) City Councilman Tim O'Hare, left, Shakes hands with a resident before the start of a city council...

In a packed room in City Hall, people clapped as the votes were tallied in favor of the measures. In a parking lot outside, hundreds of protesters against the rules hoisted U.S. flags and recited the Pledge of Allegiance in English before the votes were taken.

The vote came after council members emerged from an all-day closed meeting with the city attorney in which they discussed the legal ramifications of the proposals. Opponents submitted an 80-signature petition to the mayor's office Monday.

"It's very much against the very fiber of this nation," said Mike Ghouse, a homebuilder with a group called Foundation for Pluralism.

Council member Bill Moses blamed what he called inadequate federal law for forcing their vote.

"I'm just sorry that the federal government has put us in this position," he said.

(AP) City Councilman Tim O'Hare says the Pledge of Allegiance before the start of a city council meeting...

Attorneys with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund met with the council during the closed meeting. Afterward, they said they had told council members the proposals, if approved, could violate federal law.

The rules could force untrained business owners and landlords to evaluate a wide array of immigration documents to determine whether the person carrying them is legally in the country, said Marisol Perez, a staff attorney for the group.

"You're putting them in the shoes of an immigration officer," she said she told council members.

The local debate over illegal immigration began in August and spawned demonstrations by both sides.

Supporters say the ordinances are necessary because the federal government has failed to address problems tied to illegal immigration. But critics argued the proposals could lead to sanctioned discrimination and racism.

(AP) Jorge Rivera leads protesters during a rally outside city hall in Farmers Branch, Texas Monday,...

Since 1970, Farmers Branch has changed from a small, predominantly white bedroom community with a declining population to a city of almost 28,000 people, about 37 percent of them Hispanic, according to the census. It also is home to more than 80 corporate headquarters and more than 2,600 small and mid-size firms, many of them minority-owned.

The proposals follow a vote this year in Hazleton, Pa., to fine landlords who rent to illegal immigrants, deny business permits to companies that employ them and require tenants to register and pay for a rental permit.

However, a federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of the Hazleton ordinance while he considers a lawsuit against the town by civil and immigrant rights groups.


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Let's see how fast some Judge jumps on this one.

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#1. To: noone222 (#0)

Let's see how fast some Judge jumps on this one.

They can jump all they want.

The states are rising up, and nothing's going to stop it.

"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." -- Marshall McLuhan, after Alexander Pope and William Blake.

YertleTurtle  posted on  2006-11-14   7:40:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: YertleTurtle (#1)

The states are rising up, and nothing's going to stop it.

I hope so ... but the feds have a way of pushing the States around, ie., integration, bussing, medical marijuana and immigration ... we'll see.

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are ruined."

Patrick Henry

noone222  posted on  2006-11-14   7:46:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: YertleTurtle (#1)

Every knee will bend before the Lobby and their agenda.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2006-11-14   8:22:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: YertleTurtle (#1)

We can only hope that Hazleton has started a trend that will replicate itself in many American cities.

Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org

who knows what evil  posted on  2006-11-14   8:32:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: noone222 (#0)

In a series of 6-0 votes, the city council without discussion approved fines for landlords that deal with illegal immigrants, and decided to allow local authorities to screen suspects in police custody to see whether they are in the country illegally.

6 - 0...cool.

Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org

who knows what evil  posted on  2006-11-14   8:41:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: noone222 (#2)

I hope so ... but the feds have a way of pushing the States around, ie., integration, bussing

I used to live in St. Louis, which had a lot of busing. Now it's being phased out. Why?

Middle-class parents, both black and white, pulled their kids out of the public schools and put them in private church schools. The only ones left in public schools are poor whites and poor blacks, and foreign kids.

This was really more of a federal order than anything else. They finally gave up, because the citizens wouldn't go along with it.

I expect to see more and more of this as time goes by. It'll take a while, of course.

"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." -- Marshall McLuhan, after Alexander Pope and William Blake.

YertleTurtle  posted on  2006-11-14   12:10:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: noone222 (#2)

the feds have a way of pushing the States around, ie., integration, bussing, medical marijuana and immigration ...

Exceed the FED mandated speed limit and you get no highway money. They have the states right where they want them.

Richard W.

Arete  posted on  2006-11-14   12:19:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Arete (#7)

I used to say that State governments were empty potemkin governments that decide little more than speed limits. They don't even have that power . . .

Burkeman1  posted on  2006-11-14   12:50:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Burkeman1, Arete (#8)

Is Louisiana still denied highway project money for keeping the legal drinking age at 18?

Imagine that we live in a country where legal age adults 18-20 can vote, join the military but are denied the ability to drink a beer in a pub.

What a joke of a country America has become.

"The desire to rule is the mother of heresies." -- St. John Chrysostom

Destro  posted on  2006-11-14   12:54:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Burkeman1 (#8)

I used to say that State governments were empty potemkin governments that decide little more than speed limits. They don't even have that power

Oh, state governments have LOTS of power. They can decide the color and design of their flag, and they can choose their state bird. Now THAT'S power!

Gold and silver are real money, paper is but a promise.

Elliott Jackalope  posted on  2006-11-14   16:34:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Elliott Jackalope (#10)

According to the TeeVee dramas- local cops exist to put up yellow ribbons around crime scenes until the Super Feds arrive to take over the investigation from the stupid, ignorant, fat, and probably "racist" local cops. Jurisdiction? No matter - the Feds can stick their nose into anything they want nowadays.

Burkeman1  posted on  2006-11-14   16:38:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: noone222 (#0)

"You're putting them in the shoes of an immigration officer," she said she told council members.

MALDEF needs to go re-read Federal Law. Localities are authorized to enforce Immigration Law. There are a myriad of means this can be done by including being trained by ICE to go and do it.

If this goes to court and the city is bright enough to trot out the appropriate US code and Florida and Alabama precedents, MALDEF gets a pie thrown in its face.

Press 1 to proceed in English. Press 2 for Deportation.

mirage  posted on  2006-11-14   17:38:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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