NE: State housing commission to lose federal funding due to illegal immigration case
Friday, Apr 18, 2008 - 09:19:50 am CDT
The Associated Press
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OMAHA - A federal agency is immediately pulling funding from a Nebraska commission designed to fight housing discrimination, citing in part the state attorney general’s refusal to prosecute a case on behalf of two illegal immigrants.

A U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development official said Thursday that it would no longer reimburse the state for pursuing discrimination cases and would stop forwarding complaints it receives to the Nebraska Equal Opportunity Commission.

[b]“We believe that the people of Nebraska are not gaining their full rights under federal fair housing laws - so we can’t let that happen,â€