Judge rejects local anti-immigrant ordnance (TX)

Not really late breaking news, so here we are in GD.... (Farmers Branch is a Dallas suburb, btw)

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A federal judge on Wednesday struck down a Farmers Branch ordinance designed to block apartment rentals to most illegal immigrants.

He wrote that only the federal government may determine whether someone is in the country legally. And he said the city, rather than deferring to the federal government's determination of immigration status, had created its own classification scheme for determining which noncitizens could rent apartments.

And he minced no words in refusing to green-light a later ordinance the city's attorneys had tailored to overcome legal issues related to the first.

"The people's will, and people's decisions, and people's wishes once again get ignored and overturned," City Council member David Koch said.




http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/052908dnmetapartment.3af44c62.html



Saw this on last evening's local news too. The newly elected mayor is quite livid. Boo hoo.