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    Texas city eyes alien crackdown

    http://washingtontimes.com/national/200 ... -3452r.htm

    Texas city eyes alien crackdown
    By Hugh Aynesworth
    THE WASHINGTON TIMES
    Published August 27, 2006




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    FARMERS BRANCH, Texas -- About 200 Hispanics rallied yesterday in front of City Hall, demanding that officials rethink their proposals to crack down on illegal aliens.

    Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Tim O'Hare started the furor when he said the city should make it a crime for landlords to rent or sell property to illegal aliens, fine businesses that employ them and halt funding of education for children of illegals.

    Mayor Pro Tem Ben Robinson further suggested that the city should ban assemblies of day laborers and should require that officers who stop suspected illegal aliens should verify all residency papers, copy them and submit them to immigration officials.

    The proposals follow similar regulations passed in Hazelton, Pa., where an Illegal Immigration Relief Act imposes a $1,000-a-day fine on landlords who rent to an illegal alien and revokes business licenses from those who hire illegal-alien workers.

    Several dozen protesters attended Monday's council meeting in Farmers Branch. The session often became heated, with those in support of the proposals shouting and interrupting the protesters.

    While most at the meeting agreed that something needs to be done to stop the flow of illegal aliens into the United States, some said the proposals go too far.

    "The [federal] government isn't doing anything, so I feel we must, but not something like this," said Robert Wolfe, a local contractor carrying a homemade sign that read, "We Are All Immigrants, But We Don't Have to Be Racists."

    Some of the speakers, including several area Hispanic politicians and leaders of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), demanded that Mr. O'Hare resign his council post.

    Domingo Garcia, a national LULAC officer and former Dallas City Council member, urged those present to register to vote. That, he said, was the key "to fighting racism of this type."

    Hector M. Flores, of Dallas, immediate past president of LULAC in Texas, elicited rousing cheers when he suggested: "Let's bring a million more Mexicans to Farmers Branch and see how it works."

    About 37 percent of Farmers Branch's 27,500 residents are Hispanic, according to the 2000 Census.

    Some of the 30 or so persons in support of the proposals carried signs that read "O'Hare for President" and "O'Hare, a Politician With Guts."

    "All they have to do is follow the law," said Mary Sutter, an elderly woman who said she drove from Duncanville, about 30 miles south of Farmers Branch, to attend the meeting. "They don't have any rights until they become citizens. This isn't what America is supposed to be."

    Many blamed the federal government -- Congress in particular -- for what they consider dereliction of duty for not passing meaningful immigration reform.

    No date was set for introduction of the proposals, but Mayor Bob Phelps predicted it might be soon.

    "It's going to happen," Mr. Phelps said. "I don't know when, but it will happen."

    Texas' senior U.S. senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Republican, last week said it was Congress' job to ease the immigration problems and not the job of individual cities.

    The Dallas Morning News, in its lead editorial Wednesday, agreed with Mrs. Hutchison.

    "The latest chapter in our country's increasingly divisive immigration debate is strong evidence of why Washington must find a solution -- and soon.

    "Every day that Congress delays," the editorial added, "more cities such as Farmers Branch and Hazelton will take up ill-conceived measures. And our nation will be the worse for it."
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    About 37 percent of Farmers Branch's 27,500 residents are Hispanic, according to the 2000 Census.
    How many are citizens and eligible to vote?

    I wonder if that is a catch and release.

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