Thread: Cracking down on illegal immigration-The Missouri way

A powerful precedent is set


VALLEY PARK, a small suburb of St Louis perched on the banks of the Meramec river, seems an odd place for a fight over illegal immigration. Although there are surely some illegals about, as there are in most parts of America, there is no visible community of outsiders or labour-intensive industries to lure them. But since 2006, when Valley Park passed legislation that outlawed the hiring of illegal aliens or renting to them, the battle has raged. On June 5th the federal court of appeals upheld the town’s ban on hiring illegal immigrants. This has opened the door to the enactment of similar laws across the country.

Valley Park’s ban on renting to illegals had earlier been struck down by a lower court, but the fight continued over hiring. A local apartment-owner who uses contractors for repair work objected to being required to verify the citizenship status of her workers. But the appeals court has now ruled that the city is not barred from imposing employment regulations that go beyond existing federal rules.

A similar case, this one from Hazelton, Pennsylvania, is still pending before another federal appeals court. Unlike Valley Park, Hazelton experienced an obvious jump in illegal aliens, who were drawn to the area by its meat-processing factories. The city cited increases in crime rates, more gang activity, higher spending on bilingual education at its public schools and on health care, and various other expenses, with no offsetting rise in tax revenues. It blamed the federal government’s lax enforcement of its own immigration laws for its fiscal burden. Hazelton has led the way in the local ordinance movement and has been in one court or another most of the time since 2006.

A number of towns have already copied Hazelton and Valley Park, and so too has the state of Arizona, which has established its own citizenship-verification requirements. Voters in Fremont, Nebraska, recently passed a Hazelton-type law by ballot initiative; it is currently under review in state courts. Kris Kobach of the University of Missouri-Kansas City law school has advised Valley Park, Hazelton and a number of other cities on how they can impose their own requirements on illegal aliens while still remaining within the federal law. It looks as though his job is now going to be a lot easier.


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It seems to me as long as we allow people to print up fiat money there will be no place in the world where freedom can flourish.

If the globalist oppose your efforts, paid for with real hard earned money, all they have to do is fire up the presses and shovel the money to any group that will oppose you.

Not only that but it seems they do it in such a way that the money to achieve their gaols is borrowed from them. Then we pay interest to a group outside of our country, like such as the Federal Reserve, on the creation and borrowing of our own fiat money.

In essence they beat us with our own stick!

Originally Posted by StokeyBob

It seems to me as long as we allow people to print up fiat money there will be no place in the world where freedom can flourish.

If the globalist oppose your efforts, paid for with real hard earned money, all they have to do is fire up the presses and shovel the money to any group that will oppose you.

Not only that but it seems they do it in such a way that the money to achieve their gaols is borrowed from them. Then we pay interest to a group outside of our country, like such as the Federal Reserve, on the creation and borrowing of our own fiat money.

In essence they beat us with our own stick!

Thats exactly right. Drives me insane.