Friday, December 11, 2009

An Illegal Immigration Patchwork

States and cities are making their own laws to stop illegal immigration and without the federal government enacting laws to regulate it, some of these laws are before the Supreme Court to see if they are legal. - - Donna Poisl

Editorial, nytimes.com

States and localities have been taking immigration enforcement into their own hands out of frustration over Washington’s failure to enact comprehensive reform, over misguided and ineffective federal enforcement of existing rules and over a sense that America has lost control of its borders.

Numerous states and towns have enacted harsh laws seeking to regulate the employment of undocumented workers, and, in some instances, keep them out of housing.
Click on the headline to read the rest of this story! This is only a small part of it.

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