Florida cities take on immigrants without waiting for feds
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Florida cities take on immigrants without waiting for feds
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TAMPA, Fla. — Some Florida cities are not waiting for a national answer on what to do about illegal immigration, and moving to take on the issue themselves.
Local legislative bodies in two Florida cities will vote this month on proposed local laws dealing with undocumented immigrants.
In Brevard County, the Palm Bay Council will consider a fine for businesses that hire workers without legal residency status.
In Highlands County, officials in Avon Park are considering banning undocumented immigrants from renting houses, as well as fines for businesses. Avon Park, where nearly one in five residents is Hispanic, is also considering requiring all city documents and other communications be only in English.
"Since there's a stalemate on any kind of (federal) reform, someone has to pick up the ball for constituents," Palm Bay Councilman Andy Anderson told The Tampa Tribune. His proposal would levy a $200 fine on businesses in the city that hire undocumented workers.
Palm Bay and Avon Park are modeling their proposed laws after similar measures in Hazelton, Pa., which gained national attention for its own crackdown on illegal immigration.
Both Florida cities' proposals would also prohibit city contracts for companies employing undocumented immigrants. They could also mean fines for landlords who rent to those in the country illegally.
Cities that pass such ordinances may face civil rights lawsuits, said Columbia University Professor Rodolfo de la Garza, who studies immigration public policy.
"It's a backwards way of doing this," de la Garza said. "It's not the authority of the city government to do it. The feds are supposed to do this. This reflects local control by a very conservative people."
John Keeley, spokesman for the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington advocacy group in favor of restrictions on immigration, said the Florida cities are in line with many others across the country.
"I think it's a grassroots constituency that's not happy with the status quo," Keeley said.
July 9, 2006 - 11:52 a.m. EDT
As a former resident of Avon Park, Florida...
in Highlands County, Florida, it is indeed high time that they started cracking down on these illegal-alien criminals. These criminals are too lazy and sorry to pick oranges like I did for 20+ years in central Florida.
Way to go, Avon Park, Florida. It's about time. Get these criminals out of the U.S. and back across the border into Mexico and central america.
Avon Park is so full of these criminals that you cannot even take a step backward without stepping on one of these illegal-alien criminals.
I was living at 429 W. Canfield Street in Avon Park, Florida across the street from some former-illegal alien criminals from the 1986 IRCA amnesty or else these criminals were current illegals. Anyway, these criminals were committing welfare and food stamp fraud and getting all kinds of U.S. citizens benefits for their 2 anchor babies and the shack-up-job boyfriend was collecting unemployment under one name and social security number and working under another name and social security number. The woman was working under one name and social security number and she was also collecting welfare and food stamps under another name and social security number and this criminal was also collecting any and all benefits she could for her 2 illegal-alien anchor babies. These criminals also committed income tax fraud also. These criminals were buying new vehicles all the time and new clothes and anything else these criminals wanted. These criminals were sitting on their fat butts laughing about getting away with their crimes and about how stupid and gullible we Americans were for not stopping their crimes or preventing these criminals from invading our country illegally. These criminals were saying how wonderful Mexico, mexicans, and the mexican way of life were and how bad America, Americans, and the American way of life were, but you would have to kill these criminals to force these criminals to go back to Mexico. These criminals were living the high life. My poor husband-at-the-time, a former-illegal alien from Mexico, wondered why he was being honest and working hard to support his family and these criminals were living high off the hog and he wondered why shouldn't he start doing the same thing. These criminals finally moved about 20 miles north of Avon Park, Florida to around Lake Wales, Florida. The man wanted to buy a few acres of land and build a house on the land, or else buy a house with these criminals ill-gotten gain from these criminals crimes and fraud.
The man's name was Gerardo Carrillo and one of the anchor babies was named Bernardo Carrillo. The woman was named Maria something or other...a different last name. What a bunch of criminals!!! We lived across the street from these criminals for 3+ years watching these mexican criminals commit every kind of fraud and every crime these criminals could get away with. This is one of the reasons I want ALL illegal-alien criminals deported and the anchor babies stripped of their phony, illegally-acquired, unconstitutional, so-called "U.S. citizenship" and deported right along with their illegal-alien criminal families and barred permanently from this country and forcibly kept out by any means necessary.
We moved in July, 1996 from Avon Park, Florida. We will never move back to Florida even though we are now divorced.
Now you know one of the reasons I hate Florida so bad.