For over four years now, the city council of Farmers Branch (a suburb of Dallas) has been waging their own little private war against undocumented immigrants. They have passed a number of laws aimed at keeping these immigrants out of their city (and evidently the citizens of the city approve, because they haven't voted them out of office).
Each and every time, the racist laws passed by the city council have been struck down by the courts as being unconstitutional. But evidently the city of Farmers Branch has more money than they know what to do with, because they keep throwing good money after bad in these court fights. They need to let us know how they're coming up with all this extra money, since every other city in Texas is having trouble meeting their budget and most are having to cut city jobs.
The latest effort by these racists is a law that would require every landlord in the city to check the citizenship of a person before renting them a house or apartment. Any landlord that rented to an undocumented immigrant could be severely fined by the city. Last month, this ordinance was also struck down as being unconstitutional. The judge said the city was trying to enforce immigration laws -- a task reserved to the federal government by the Constitution.
But the city council has just met and decided to waste more of the city's money on their racist and futile quest to discriminate. They have decided to appeal the latest ruling to a higher court, where they will no doubt lose again.
I'll say one thing. Racists here in Texas sure are a hard-headed bunch.
Not wanting undocumented immigrants is not a race issue. If they specified to Mexican undocumented workers or Irish undocumented workers then yes it would be racist, but not wanting undocumented workers is not a matter of racism. It is a matter of making sure jobs and homes are occupied by Americans. I don't mean white Americans I just mean legal Americans. I honestly don't understand why it is always made into a race matter when it is not. Like people saying we should build a fence around the Canadian border. Well if millions of undocumented Canadians were flooding into this country I'm sure we would. Final word on the subject: Look up the word Racism.
ReplyDeleteCanadians are in this country in large numbers, but no one cares. Stop higing your head in the sand and face reality. This is aimed at Hispanics and you know it. To claim otherwise is just disingenuous.
ReplyDeleteSorry, that was meant to be "hiding", not "higing".
ReplyDeleteIllegal immigration is still Illegal, regardless of ethnic background. If it were the case to where millions of Canadians were flooding the border I'm sure your opinion would change in this matter. Even though the laws wouldn't. It is people like you who make this a race matter. Even though it is an immigration matter no matter how much you say it isn't.
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