News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Dallas suburb sued over anti-immigration law

Tuesday December 26, 2006
By ANABELLE GARAY
Associated Press Writer

DALLAS (AP) Two civil rights groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a suburb's new law that outlaws renting to illegal immigrants, alleging the ordinance violates federal law and forces landlords to act as immigration officers.

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the American Civil Liberties Union filed the suit on behalf of Farmers Branch residents and landlords.

Plaintiffs include two landlords as well as Latino legal permanent residents and U.S. citizen children who fear the ordinance will force them to separate from relatives or leave their homes, the suit said.

The law, along with a measure that made English the official language of the city, was passed in November and is scheduled to go into effect Jan. 12.

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