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.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Pennsylvania Town Defends Illegal Immigrant Crackdown in Court

Monday , March 12, 2007
Associated Press

There is no evidence to back up the claim by Hazleton's mayor that illegal immigrants are destroying the quality of life in the former Pennsylvania mining town, a civil rights attorney told a judge Monday at the start of the first federal trial on local efforts to curb illegal immigration.

"Even if illegal immigrants really are wreaking havoc on Hazleton, that doesn't change the legal analysis" that the former coal town's crackdown on illegal immigrants usurps the federal government's role, said Witold "Vic" Walczak, the Pennsylvania legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Last summer, Hazleton officials passed the city's Illegal Immigration Relief Act, imposing fines on landlords who rent to illegal immigrants and denying business permits to companies that employ them. Another measure requires tenants to register with City Hall.

Hispanic groups and the ACLU sued, contending the measures are unconstitutional.

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