Farmers Branch, Texas

[39mto39g]

A small comunity Just NW of Dallas has sparked a throrn in the side of illegal mexicans in our country.
Hears a link to what that comunity has done.
Way to go Farmers Branch
Ron

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061112/D8LBNBI01.html

[Jerry D]

Way to go Farmers Branch I hear one of the Mexican Activist groups are planning on sueing for the right for illegal immigrants to get work there .

[39mto39g]

JD
You know whats wrong with that, The Mex group will win. and that sucks

Ron

[Seascamp]

The National will on this issue has been ignored, marginalized, ridiculed and pocket vetoed so it seems in the way of things that communities will go it alone, lawsuits be dammed.

Apparently even the UN is going to get in on the act and assert that the US cannot assert border controls. I fully expect that during the 110th Congress, more communities will be forced to go it alone out of fiscal and security necessity; as in no real choice in the issue.

Scamp



'A Nevada town passed a law this week making it illegal to fly a foreign nation's flag by itself, the latest swipe by a U.S. community at illegal immigrants.
The town council of Pahrump, which lies in the Mojave Desert west of Las Vegas, voted 3-2 on Tuesday to make flying any foreign flag above the U.S. flag or alone an offense punishable by a $50 fine and 30 hours' community service.
The meeting also pushed through measures to deny services to illegal immigrants and make English the official language in Pahrump, a commuter town of 40,000 residents some 60 miles west of Las Vegas.
Supporters said they passed the measure to hit back at Hispanic demonstrators who carried Mexican flags when they marched in U.S. cities earlier this year to press for rights for 10 million to 12 million illegal immigrants living in the shadows.
"All of the illegal alien protesters are waving Mexican flags, and we just got tired of it," town board clerk Paul Willis told Reuters in a telephone interview.
"This is the United States, and the Stars and Stripes should fly supreme," he added.
Hispanic groups slammed the flag ordinance as a blow to first-amendment rights to free speech but thought it unlikely that the community would enforce it.
"It is clearly unconstitutional, but given that Pahrump that is such a small town, I don't think they are going to be hiring any flag police any time soon." said John Trasvina, the president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
In passing the bylaw, the town joined several other communities from California to Pennsylvania that have passed laws curbing illegal immigrants in recent months.
Among them are Escondido, in southern California, and Hazleton in Pennsylvania, where councilors barred landlords from renting to undocumented aliens and denied them access to services.
In Texas, where a third of the citizens are Hispanic, the Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch this week enacted laws fining landlords who rent to illegal immigrants and making English the official language.
Texas lawmakers preparing for the next legislative session in January filed bills this week to block state assistance to illegal immigrants and their children and to tax money transfers to Mexico, according to the bills.'

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