Thread: Texas Town Joins Illegal-Immigrant Trend

Nov 12, 3:42 PM EST


Texas Town Joins Illegal-Immigrant Trend
By ANABELLE GARAY
Associated Press Writer

FARMERS BRANCH, Texas (AP) -- This Dallas suburb could become the first city in Texas to adopt a sweeping ordinance intended to keep out illegal immigrants, a cause for concern among its large minority population.

More than 50 municipalities nationwide have considered, passed or rejected laws banning landlords from leasing to illegal immigrants, penalizing businesses that employ undocumented workers and making English the local official language.

But until now, that trend hasn't been matched in the Lone Star State.

"This is the first town in Texas that had the guts to do what's right," Susie Hart, who grew up in Farmers Branch, said during a recent demonstration outside City Hall. "The education system is tanking, health care has gone through the roof, everybody is bilingual."




Such sentiments and the proposed ordinance trouble many people in Texas, where many Latino families can trace their roots here to the era before statehood.

"This is not just a Farmers Branch problem," Elizabeth Villafranca said of the proposal.

Villafranca, whose family owns a Mexican restaurant in Farmers Branch, said she worries that such laws will spread to other cities if the City Council approves the proposal. The measure is expected to be submitted to the council on Monday, but there was no indication when it might be put to a vote.

Since 1970, Farmers Branch has changed from a small, predominantly white bedroom community with a declining population to a city of almost 28,000 people, about 37 percent of them Hispanic, according to the census.

It also is home to more than 80 corporate headquarters and more than 2,600 small and mid-size firms, many of them minority-owned.

The local debate over illegal immigration began in August and spawned demonstrations by both sides of the issue. Council members adopted a resolution criticizing the federal government for not aggressively addressing the issue.

A councilman has given city attorneys drafts of an ordinance that would make English the city's official language and proposals to fine companies and landlords who do business with illegal immigrants.

The Farmer's Branch proposal follows a vote this year in Hazleton, Pa., to fine landlords who rent to illegal immigrants, deny business permits to companies that employ them and require tenants to register and pay for a rental permit. However, a federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of the Hazleton ordinance while he considers a lawsuit against the town by the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups.

More than a dozen other Pennsylvania cities have taken up similar ordinances, as have several others in the South and a handful in California.

Many of the towns and counties have based their ordinances on a model provided by the Immigration Reform Law Institute, which favors limits on immigration and is affiliated with the Federation for American Immigration Reform.

"They've all expressed a great deal of frustration with the failure of the federal government to respond" to illegal immigration, said Mike Hethmon, the institute's general counsel.

Critics fear the spread of anti-illegal immigration rules will lead to sanctioned discrimination and racism.

"It's basically saying those people are illegal in their very nature; it is all right to be against them because they are lawbreakers. Many people are assuming that all immigrants are lawbreakers, and that people who are different, who speak a different language, are to be shunned," said Cesar Perales, president and general counsel of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund.

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On MSN, here is the photo they chose to use.



At the first rally, the opposition screamed racist at the Americans.

Dixie

Since these people always think it's racists to protect one's taxes, town, etc......then let them.....maybe citizens should start saying, "if you want to think that, go ahead...I don't care what name you put on it, you are illegal!"

Originally Posted by mapwife

"It's basically saying those people are illegal in their very nature; it is all right to be against them because they are lawbreakers. Many people are assuming that all immigrants are lawbreakers, and that people who are different, who speak a different language, are to be shunned," said Cesar Perales, president and general counsel of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund.

What a load of crap!

I wouldn't be surprised if the much vaunted "Ford Foundation" has given these crooks a little cash over the years...

Hold on...

Here it is:

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Organization: Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.
Purpose: For advocacy, legal and leadership development activities on behalf of Latino communities
Location: NEW YORK, NY
Program: Peace and Social Justice
Unit: Human Rights
Field: Human Rights
Amount: $700,000
Year: 2006

I've bought my last Ford Product. If they want to aid illegal aliens, then I'm done with them too.

Dixie

"It's basically saying those people are illegal in their very nature; it is all right to be against them because they are lawbreakers. Many people are assuming that all immigrants are lawbreakers, and that people who are different, who speak a different language, are to be shunned," said Cesar Perales, president and general counsel of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Yeah, what's wrong with overcrowded, failing schools, bankrupted and closed hospitals and ER's, packed jails, prisons and courts. Why the fuss over strained municipal budgets, overburdened social services, like welfare, SSI, food stamps, Medicaid, etc.? Who needs to have safe neighborhoods, low crime, safe roads to drive on? After all, who needs a literate, skilled, English speaking population? Look how great it's working out for Mexico. They only have half their population in poverty, what's wrong with us following suit?

So what if your car was stolen, along with your job and identity, by an illegal alien. So your neighbor's 8 year old girl was sexually assaulted by an illegal, 8 or 18, what's the difference? Who's counting anyway? So what if your relative was killed by a drunk, hit and run driver with no license who fled on foot and resisted arrest, you'd be afraid too if your were in a racist country far from home and didn't speak the language.

So what if your new next door neighbor has 38 illegals living in a two bedroom apartment, urinating on your flowers, with 16 stolen cars parked on the lawn, driving down your property value. Who cares if you can't sleep at night due to the constant blaring of car alarms, police sirens, Mariachi and the occasional gunshot.

Who cares if your child's school is overcrowded and ranks at the bottom of the rankings all due to masses of non-English speaking kids. Given enough taxpayer funds and diverted teacher time, they'll eventually get to learn English, just in time for them to drop out of school and join a drug dealing gang of grafitti spraying thugs. I really can't see any reason why anyone could possibly have to complain, unless of course they are just a bunch of restrictionist, nationalistic, xenophobic racists.

Such sentiments and the proposed ordinance trouble many people in Texas, where many Latino families can trace their roots here to the era before statehood.

If these long time Americans still hold allegiance to Mexico then that's gonna be just tough.

I've bought my last Ford Product. If they want to aid illegal aliens, then I'm done with them too.

Near as I can tell I'm not going to ever own another new vehicle.
A friend called for me to watch the CMA's.
Chevrolet tried to do some good ads on the CMA awards show with the theme of "it's my country." I was basking in the nostalgia of pre-invasion days actually being entertained for a while. Some La Raza producer shot the whole campaign down by bringing on Eva Longoria.(Insert vomit emoticon here) Chevrolet's millions got trash canned on that move. Totally inappropriate. They should get a refund.

Originally Posted by Dixie

I've bought my last Ford Product. If they want to aid illegal aliens, then I'm done with them too.

Dixie

Michigan State University is asking me to renew my alumni association dues. Since they are supporters of La Raza and the Ford Foundation, I am going to withhold my payment. I am going to be sure that they know why...