Courts Undermine Local Laws Again: Immigration
by Jeff Davis
What do liberals, leftists and Jews do when they lose on an issue? They go running to the courts as fast as their bandy little legs can carry them, to get a liberal judge to overturn whatever popular law, they don’t like. Now they’re using the courts to strike down attempts to enforce immigration law.
The Associated Press reports that: “A Dallas suburb’s ban on apartment rentals to illegal immigrants, an ordinance passed by city leaders and later endorsed in a vote by its residents, is unconstitutional, a federal judge found Wednesday. Only the federal government can regulate immigration, U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay concluded in his decision.”
This undermining of the law by the courts is un-Constitutional since the Tenth Amendment clearly states that all powers not specifically allocated to the Federal government are reserved to the states. And why have some states resorted to making local laws to prevent the hiring of illegal aliens or laws to prevent local landlords from renting apartments to illegals? Because the federal government and the President of the United States have refused to enforce immigration law. Our politicians simply leave the back door open for illegal aliens and drug smugglers, and they get paid off by the big businesses, who hire the illegals (and probably by the drug smugglers too).
The AP article notes “The Farmers Branch council passed the ordinance last year. It would have barred apartment rentals to illegal immigrants and required landlords to verify legal status. The rule would have exempted minors and senior citizens from having to prove their immigration status or citizenship…Residents heavily endorsed the rule a year ago in the nation’s first public vote on a local measure to combat illegal immigration… Bill Brewer, who represented apartment complex operators who opposed the rule, declared victory. ‘It’s a good day, not just for my clients,’ Brewer said. ‘It’s a good day for people who are thinking clearly about what is the proper role of municipal governments in the immigration debate.’”
Apparently greedy apartment landlords played a role in this battle. These greedy SOBs care only for the money that the illegals give them, mostly in the form of cash under the table, the way the illegals themselves are paid. I wonder how many of the landlords are failing to report their total cash income to the IRS. For that money, the capitalist apartment owners allow the illegals to turn their apartment complexes into dirty, overcrowded, unsanitary and dangerous barrios and gobble up what little affordable rental housing remains for working class white Americans. You’d think landlords would be wary of Latino renters, who often crowd ten to a room and often wear out the plumbing (not to mention driving out any normal White families, who have to live next to them). But I guess cash payments are all the landlords can think of, and they don’t even care if they destroy the neighborhoods they grew up in.