I was seeing this headline plastered all over the place. I makes no sense but boy howdy did it sell!

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nati ... kdown.html



Hazleton, Pa. mayor loses key argument for illegal immigrant crackdown

By Michael Rubinkam

ASSOCIATED PRESS
5:24 p.m. July 6, 2007

ALLENTOWN, Pa. – The mayor of Hazleton has long cited the May 2006 shooting death of a 29-year-old city man as the impetus for pushing one of the nation's strictest community crackdowns on illegal immigrants.

But on Friday, prosecutors dropped homicide charges against the two illegal immigrants accused of shooting Derek Kichline – depriving Mayor Lou Barletta of one of his key arguments for kicking illegal immigrants out of Hazleton.

Barletta's critics quickly pointed to the decision as evidence that the mayor jumped to conclusions when he accused illegal immigrants of wrecking his northeastern Pennsylvania city of more than 30,000.

“This dismissal of charges adds to the long list of discredited claims Barletta has made in the course of demonizing undocumented immigrants for allegedly destroying Hazleton,â€