Save Western Civilization > Save America

ACLU Sues Texas Town for Not Renting to Illegals

(1/2) > >>

MasterWolf1:
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 American Civil Liberties Union and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund filed the suit on behalf of Farmers Branch residents and landlords.

The lawsuit claims the ordinance is so poorly drafted that it excludes even legal immigrants from renting in the city just north of Dallas.


"Immigration enforcement must be left to the federal government, not each local municipality," said Lisa Graybill, legal director of the ACLU of Texas. "Otherwise Texas will end up with a patchwork system that is impractical and unenforceable."

Farmers Branch spokesman Tom Bryson said the city will not comment on pending litigation. City leaders had expected legal challenges like the one filed Tuesday, which is the third brought against the city since the ordinance passed.


"I don't know if there is any real expectation of what would be coming down the pipe and what wouldn't," Bryson said.


On Friday, three apartment complexes filed a lawsuit asking a federal court to halt the renter law from going into effect, saying it should be declared unconstitutional.


In November, City Council members unanimously approved having property managers or owners verify the immigration or citizenship status of apartment renters. Council members also approved resolutions making English the city's official language and allowing local authorities to become part of a federal program so they can enforce immigration laws.


In another lawsuit filed this month, a Farmers Branch resident alleged that the city's mayor repeatedly violated the state's open meetings laws to deliberate the ordinances.


Opponents of the ordinances have also submitted a petition that they hope will force a vote on the measures. If at the city verifies at least 726 of the signatures, a public vote is expected in May.

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.

More than 50 municipalities nationwide have considered, passed or rejected similar laws, but until now that trend hasn't been matched in the Lone Star State.

Hail Columbia:

--- Quote from: MasterWolf1 on December 27, 2006, 07:23:12 PM ---"Immigration enforcement must be left to the federal government, not each local municipality," said Lisa Graybill, legal director of the ACLU of Texas. "Otherwise Texas will end up with a patchwork system that is impractical and unenforceable."
--- End quote ---

Translation:  Immigration laws should not be enforced.

These traitors know damn well that the federal government could care less about immigration enforcement, which is why they insist that it should be left up to the federal government.

MarZutra:
I read this fabulous book a while back called "Fabian Freeway: The High Road to Socialism in the USA" by Rose L. Martin, in which she details the history of the ACLU as having its roots in the British Fabian Society which founded it, along with direct assistance to the NAACP and the CFR, with an agenda to subvert the Constitution, provide legal defense to any exposed Socialist/Communists and to promulgate Socialism in the United States.  It is actually a very worthy book. 

In my personal opinion, I am hoping there is ONE attorney that will read this and take on the righteous challenge of launching legal actions against the ACLU for Sedition or Treason...  They with all the other elite/Socialist clubs/organizations must be auditted, charged, fined and shut down....with members jailed or hung!!

Christian Zionist:
ACLU = American Communist Lawyers Union >:(

MarZutra:

--- Quote from: Christian Zionist on December 27, 2006, 11:30:26 PM ---ACLU = American Communist Lawyers Union >:(

--- End quote ---
Very good.  Never thought of that.  CFR: Carnegie, Ford & Rockefeller Inc. ;)

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page