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Mark_Pogue Donating Member (274 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 01:10 PM
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Local Anti-Immigrant Ordinance Cases
In dozens of cities across the country, local government officials are attempting to drive undocumented workers out of their towns by punishing those who employ or rent to them.

This wave of anti-immigrant ordinances began in April 2006 with a ballot initiative in San Bernardino, Calif., that sought to deny city permits, contracts and grants to businesses that employ undocumented immigrants; allow police to seize vehicles used to pick up day laborers; ban undocumented immigrants from renting or leasing property and require official city business to be conducted in English.

An ordinance similar to San Bernardino’s passed in the town of Hazleton, Pa., in July 2006. This new law created a very vague, broad definition of an “illegal” immigrant and tried to punish landlords, employers and others who do business with those immigrants, and also included an English-Only provision. Since then, approximately 86 localities have proposed some form of the Hazleton ordinance in 27 states, each varying in language and in scope. Of these, 26 ordinances have passed.

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muntrv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 01:22 PM
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1. How many Americans will line up to work those jobs that they hire immigrants
to do? Betcha zero.
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Mark_Pogue Donating Member (274 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 01:29 PM
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2. Good point!
But yet many American citizens feel the need to exploit the "illegals" though.
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athebea Donating Member (146 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 02:46 PM
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3. Americans most definitely did take those jobs...
... when illegals were expelled by a raid from a chicken processing plant in Georgia.

A lot of the jobs illegals have now, Blacks had before and had to be paid American wages to do.

The owners of the chicken processing plant had to (gasp !) increase the wages.
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