MALDEF and ACLU sue NE town
In the Washington Times this morning, Rachel Duke writes about a lawsuit brought by Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund (MALDEF) and the American Civil Liberties Union against a Nebraska town which voted to make illegal the hiring and renting homes to illegal immigrants.
The lawsuits claim Fremont’s ordinance is at odds with the constitutional mandate imposing a uniform federal immigration-enforcement system. They also accuse the ordinance of violating the federal Fair Housing Act and the equal protection and due process clauses of the U.S. Constitution.
“Divisive ordinances like these tear communities apart,” said Jennifer Chang Newell, staff attorney with the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project. “It’s time to stop promoting discriminatory policies like these so that we can come together to find a national approach to immigration.”
Would someone tell me where I can find a copy of “a uniform federal immigration-enforcement system”. And tell me what is the harm in profiling when most of the law breakers are of a certain persuasion?
Lemme think about this for a second. It seems to me that it takes like 20 seconds to fish your immigration card or your driver license from your wallet to prove you are in this country legally. It takes a quarter of a second to decide not to go to that one small town in Nebraska in the first place, if you’re illegal. You can even go to a more vibrant and welcoming sactuary city instead. But I guess that wouldn’t keep a couple of ACLU lawyers employed.
Category: Illegal Immigrants
So, as a Nebraskan, it is against the federal law to not rent a home to a person who is breaking the law by being here illegally? Then, if I do find out that they are here illegally, and report them, the Federal Government will not enforce the laws by deporting them?
AND, if my city does enforce the law, they are obstructing the Government who refuses to do so and will be sued?
What sort of fucking government do we have, anyway?
Dutch, I have to believe that’s a rhetorical question, we all know what kind of government we have. Kinda reminds me of a circular firing squad when you put it the way you did.
But, I’m sure the lawyers for Arizona will be making the same argument you made, at least I hope they do.
I can add one for dutch508. If he rents that house to the illegal alien, and the law finds out about it, he’s going up the river for aiding and abetting, or some such, whether or not he knew about it.
Law says that ignorance is no excuse, after all.
More and more, this is all becoming a shell game.
Year after year people keep saying to punish the ones who hire them, etc. Seems the only people GOING to jail when people are here illegally are the natural born citizens. The whole situation is a flipping mess.
“Lemme think about this for a second. It seems to me that it takes like 20 seconds to fish your immigration card or your driver license from your wallet to prove you are in this country legally. It takes a quarter of a second to decide not to go to that one small town in Nebraska in the first place, if you’re illegal. You can even go to a more vibrant and welcoming sactuary city instead. But I guess that wouldn’t keep a couple of ACLU lawyers employed.”
This is far too common-sensical John, which is why it will never ever occur to the geniuses at the ACLU if every one of them live 1000 years.
“Divisive ordinances like these tear communities apart, said Jennifer Chang Newell, staff attorney with the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project.”
Jennifer Chang Newell, Graduate Stanford U School of Law, undergrad degree, Yale College, San Francisco based anti-war activist, research/project director TIDES Foundation, clerkship to Judge Marsha S.Berzon, US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Chang-Newell is all over the map pursuing “immigrant rights” and “other issues” of interest to the ACLU