Jan 23 2008
Texas Town Makes it Illegal to rent to Illegals
States are finding that if they want to control the tsunami of illegal aliens invading their states they must take actions into their own hands. The federal government simply refuses to enforce the laws already on the books. Arizona’s recent law made it illegal for employers to hire illegal aliens and levied heavy fines and the threat of loosing their license to do business in the state for repeat offenders. Now not only many states are enacting laws to stem the flow of uninvited guests in this country, but so are many cities. The latest is the Dallas suburb of Farmer’s Branch, Texas.
The measure requires the Dallas suburb to check a renter’s legal status with the federal government.
“The federal government will verify if the person is in the country legally,” Mayor Pro Tem Tim O’Hare said. “If not, we will notify that person as well as the landlord in writing that they do not have the right to be in the country.” (Source: CNN)
Naturally this will be challenged by those who would give our country away. The town of Farmer’s Branch is still struggling with the judicial system over another measure they took to stop the illegals from ruining their home. So far they have spent $770,000 in court trying to defend themselves.
The case is still in court after a federal judge blocked that law, finding that city officials were trying to control immigration differently from the U.S. government, according to The Associated Press.
Attorneys for Farmers Branch have said they believe the new ordinance clears up any constitutional questions. (Source: CNN)
It is going to be interesting to watch and see how the town fares in this latest legal battle to enforce the law of the land in their own community. Lord knows we here in Florida know how they feel. Last time I visited Dallas it was like being in Miami without the palm trees. I felt like a foreigner in my own country.
Nothing we have done so far has helped to relieve the tensions and the problems caused by the flood of illegal immigrants streaming over the southern US border. Once these were problems of mostly border states, but now it has reached such proportions that there is hardly a part of the country that has not been affected.
What we are trying to do, of course, with attempting to penalize employers and to build fences to prevent even more of these refugees from taking more American jobs and stressing more American institutions is an attempt to lock the barn after the horses have been stolen.
Fences are rarely a good idea and they rarely solve problems. Even the great Chinese wall was eventually breeched. The tearing down of the Berlin wall was greeted by rapturous cheering from both sides, and the fences snaking their way through Palestinian territories dividing people from their fields and their jobs, have succeeded only in making life more miserable for the Palestinians and creating more hostility on both sides.
Since the enforcement of NAFTA border hysteria has grown exponentially as more and more people pour over the borders looking for work. Many of these people would rather stay home, but they are being forced out of their own country by the moneyed elites on both sides who have rigged trade and labor policies to push out workers and farmers.
Nineteen million more Mexicans, for example, live in poverty today than when NAFTA was passed. The number of business bankruptcies in Mexico have gone through the roof and Agribusinesses have forced two million peasants off their lands.
US corporations control 40% of Mexico’s jobs. Three fourths of the illegal immigrants working in the United States come from our neighbor to the south.
As for some other countries south of the border, those who were too smart to join NAFTA, as Brazil for instance, have fared much better. NAFTA has certainly influenced many people but has won few friends in the working classes.
If you are unhappy with the currect labor and social services problems due to the heavy influx of undocumented workers, give credit where credit is due. Blame NAFTA