Immigration racketeering suit dismissed
April 9, 2009


PLAINFIELD — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to use anti-mob legislation to stop a New Jersey property manager from renting apartments to illegal immigrants.



A nationwide group favoring stricter immigration controls argued that Connolly Properties, a large landlord with buildings in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, rented so many apartments to illegal immigrants that it constituted harboring under federal racketeering laws.

The suit was brought by the legal arm of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a group that backed the nation's first anti-illegal immigration ordinances in Hazelton, Pa., and Riverside, N.J.

Numerous advocacy groups supporting Latino residents in Plainfield, where the case originated, praised the ruling issued today.


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