Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Barletta loses the first round

Many more to come.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the city of Hazleton from enforcing a pair of ordinances targeting illegal immigrants, just hours before the measures were to go into effect...U.S. District Judge James Munley ruled that landlords, tenants and businesses that cater to Hispanics faced "irreparable harm" from the laws and issued a temporary restraining order blocking their enforcement.

"We find it in the public interest to protect residents' access to homes, education, jobs and businesses," he wrote...Munley, however, wrote that the city "offers only vague generalizations about the crime allegedly caused by illegal immigrants, but has nothing concrete to back up these claims." The city also failed to provide statistics on the number of illegal immigrants living in Hazleton, he wrote.

Furthermore, Munley wrote, the plaintiffs have a "reasonable probability" of getting the laws declared unconstitutional.

US Constitution Article I sec. 8: The Congress shall have power to...To establish a uniform rule of naturalization.

Some think this will be good news for the force behind this latest attempt to divide people, Rick Santorum. I still predict, as the legal bills mount, that this nonsense will be dropped sometime after the election and Rick migrates back to Virginia.



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The city also failed to provide statistics on the number of illegal immigrants living in Hazleton, he wrote.

I have always wondered, how do you get statistics on illegal immigrants, you walk up and say, "hi are you here illegally?"

LVDem said...

how do we know there are 13 million illegals in the country. I'm not a statistical expert (I'm guessing nobody here is), but somebody somewhere can get that information.