The racists in Farmers Branch (Texas) just won't give up. Last year, they passed an ordinance that prevented home and apartment owners from renting to undocumented immigrants. Saying the ordinance was illegal, a judge issued a restraining order that prevented the city from implementing the ordinance.But the city council wasn't happy with embarrassing themselves once -- they have now done it again. The city council just voted unanimously to approve a new ordinance they hope will accomplish what the last ordinance couldn't -- preventing undocumented immigrants from renting within the city limits.
The new ordinance would require all landlords to get a license from the city before renting a home or apartment to anyone. The city would then check against a federal database to determine if the renter was in the United States legally.
Of course, the new law is probably just as illegal as the first one, and it looks like the city council knows it. Councilman Jim Smith said, "This may [be] in the courts forever. I hope not, but the decision is: let's go for it."
But as stupid as that is, they did something even dumber. They forgot to check and see if there was a federal database available for their use. There isn't! Maria Elena Garcia-Upson, a spokeswoman for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, says, "...there is no database where the city or anyone can pick up the phone and give alienage, like yes this person is legal or no that person isn't legal, there is no such database."
What a bunch of racist morons!
This is typical of the racist knee-jerk measure of these type of people, the same measures that typify the Bush administration.
ReplyDeleteThis law does nothing but act as sound and fury: "You Mexicans better beware!" It ups the race relations stress level with legal hispanic americans living in Farmers Branch and ultimately keeps dollars out of the Farmers Branch. Which, I'm sure is a small loss to the racists which just don't want to "see" all those damn brown people in their community.
They can work there, but they dont want them living there. There's been a large response to actions such as this in other communities. Hispanic community groups should boycott Farmers Branch.
Green trumps brown in the end.
You people are stupid. Its not being racist, its illegal. There are people who have paid alot of money to be here legally. And its not right or fair for these illegal people to get more rights than the citizens or the people who are here legally. The people who dont want to do it the legal way shouldnt be able to stay in a house, or have a job. PERIOD!!!!
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