Immigrants flocked
to the meatpacking plants surrounding Fremont, Neb., during the last decade,
nearly tripling the local Latino population and prompting some city leaders to propose
an ordinance that would ban renting to those in the country illegally.
Nebraska town's
anti-immigration rule stands, but furor persists
Renters in Fremont, Neb., are
required to obtain a $5 permit and swear they reside legally in the United
States. The ordinance has divided the small Midwestern town..... THEY SHOULD SEE WHAT MEXICANS HAVE DONE TO LA RAZA-OCCUPIED LOS ANGELES, NOW A MEX DUMPSTER!
Nebraska town's
anti-immigration ordinance 'shreds human relations,' attorney says
Fremont, Neb.,
ordinance requires renters to swear they are legal residents
U.S. Supreme Court refuses to review Nebraska town's anti-immigration
rule
Immigrants flocked to the meatpacking plants surrounding
Fremont, Neb., during the last decade, nearly tripling the local Latino
population and prompting some city leaders to propose an ordinance that would
ban renting to those in the country illegally.
The lasting, public
outrage that followed shocked many in the mild-mannered Midwestern outpost of
26,000 people about 30 miles northwest of Omaha.
"Conflict is
uncomfortable — especially when it's with people you work with or live near and
have to see at the grocery store," said Virginia Meyer, 27, a mother of
two who eventually fought the ordinance.
This week, the U.S.
Supreme Court decided not to review the ordinance adopted in 2010, a triumph
for supporters who predicted more cities would follow their lead. Appeals
courts in other states, however, have blocked similar ordinances, and cities
may wonder whether it was worth the uproar.
"It would be
reckless for any city to undertake an ordinance like this," said Thomas
Saenz, president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and
Education Fund, which sued to block it.
He said the
ordinance, which took effect April 10, "shreds human relations." It
requires renters to purchase a $5 permit from the city and swear that they have
permission to live in the United States legally.
The Supreme Court
has often avoided addressing controversial immigration cases, leaving the
matter to states and Congress to resolve.
The justices
declined to address similar ordinances that lower courts struck down, seemingly
setting up a conflict with the current case, said David Weber, a law professor
at Creighton University in Omaha.
"They
purposely ducked the question," said Weber, who lives near Fremont and has
witnessed how divisive the ordinance has become.
"We're so
homogenous that these fault lines are starting to develop," and the
question remains, he added, "How do these states, especially in the
Midwest, that have been so homogenous for so much time, deal with these issues
of assimilation and immigration that the border states have been dealing with
for years?"
Conflict is
uncomfortable - especially when it's with people you work with or live near and
have to see at the grocery store.- Virginia Meyer, resident of Fremont, Neb.
So far, 140 people
have applied for the renters' permit, less than half of what was expected, and
none has had a questionable residency status, according to Fremont Police Chief
Jeffrey Elliott.
Then-City
Councilman Bob Warner, a construction superintendent, Democrat and lifelong
Fremont resident, proposed the ordinance in 2008. Now 85 and retired from the
council, Warner said he was responding to complaints from constituents about
new immigrants straining local clinics, schools and police.
One woman told him
about walking a few blocks to the local elementary school to sign her daughter
up for kindergarten only to discover that she was one of only a few children in
the class of 18 who spoke fluent English.
The swift pace of
immigration concerned people. Residents worried Fremont would become another
Schuyler, a town about 30 miles west that is known for its skyrocketing Latino
population, more than 65% of the roughly 6,000 residents.
Fremont's ordinance
survived several challenges, including a repeal proposal in February that
failed by a vote of 60% to 40%. Meyer campaigned for the repeal. She grew up in
Minneapolis, where she lived and studied among Latino neighbors.
"I benefited a
lot from being around that diversity, and I wanted my kids to really experience
that and celebrate that instead of the tension I saw around Fremont," she
said.
Meyer travels to
Schuyler occasionally for her job at a local agriculture and rural policy
center. Instead of a town overrun by outsiders, she sees something else: a
booming local economy.
"There's
restaurants, music playing downtown, young families, culture — that town feels
alive. To reject all that's going on in that community and say we don't want
Fremont to be like Schuyler is kind of shortsighted," Meyer said.
The ACLU of
Nebraska, along with MALDEF, sued to block the ordinance. They argued that the
city should not be allowed to enforce federal immigration law, which opens the
door for discrimination.
"Not all
Latinos living in Fremont are undocumented," said Alonzo Rivas, MALDEF's
Chicago-based regional counsel, noting that one of the plaintiffs in the
group's lawsuit is a legal resident — although his wife isn't. "People who
are here legally may be caught in this ordinance."
Supporters of the
ordinance enlisted Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a conservative
Republican known for championing similar ordinances that ultimately failed in
Hazleton, Pa., and Farmers Branch, Texas. Kobach claimed victory Tuesday, not
just for Nebraska, but for states covered by the federal appeals court that has
so far affirmed the ordinance, including Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri
and the Dakotas. That court found that the ordinance did not discriminate
against Latinos or interfere with federal immigration laws.
Now that the
Supreme Court refused to hear the case, Kobach said, "all the cities there
have to do is adopt the Fremont ordinance word for word and they will be on
safe ground."
But in Fremont,
tensions linger, Meyer said. She knows ACLU and MALDEF lawyers are searching
for signs of discrimination under the ordinance, and if they continue to pursue
a lawsuit, it could be costly for her city.
"We're not out
of the woods yet," she said. "It doesn't feel like a victory."
What will America stand for in 2050?
The US should think long
and hard about the high number of Latino immigrants.
The principal beneficiaries of our current immigration policy are affluent
Americans who hire immigrants at substandard wages for low-end work. Harvard
economist George Borjas estimates that American workers lose $190 billion
annually in depressed wages caused by the constant flooding of the labor market
at the low-wage end.
HERITAGE
FOUNDATION: OBAMA’S AMNESTY WOULD ADD 100 MORE ILLEGALS AND COST AMERICANS
(Legals) BILLIONS AND BILLIONS…. actually, it already does! CA alone puts out
$22 billion per year in social services to illegals with counties handing out
even more!
the
staggering cost of Mexico’s looting:
OBAMA EXPANDS
BACKDOOR AMNESTY TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED FOR HIS PAYMASTERS
FROM JUDICIAL WATCH:
March 04,
2014
Besides
blowing off congress to give illegal immigrants backdoor amnesty, the Obama
administration is also letting businesses that hire undocumented workers off
the hook by drastically reducing fines and enforcement, a new federal audit reveals.
THE MEXICAN TAX-FREE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY IN LOS ANGELES
COUNTY ALONE IS CALCULATED TO BE IN EXCESS OF $2 BILLION PER YEAR!
LOOTERS
L.A.
Mexico declares
Los Angeles officially under LA RAZA SUPREMACY occupation.
THIS IS SHOCKING! JOLTING! WHAT THE DEMS’ HAVE DONE
TO US TO BUILD THEIR PARTY BASE OF LOOTING ILLEGALS!
STAGGERING POVERTY IN LOS ANGELES - THE LA
RAZA-OCCUPIED COLONY of MEXICO'S and EXAMPLE OF THE DEMOCRAT'S PARTY OF OPEN
BORDERS
LOS ANGELES – GATEWAY FOR THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS
LOS ANGELES,
MEXIFORNIA – LA RAZA WELFARE CAPITAL OF AMERICA, GATEWAY FOR THE MEXICAN DRUG
CARTELS, AND A MEXICAN DUMPSTER WHERE NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!
LA RAZA SISTERS
of CORRUPTION, FEINSTEIN, BOXER and PELOSI are all advocates for Obama’s
amnesty hoax to legalize Mexico’s looting! They are guilty by greed of turning
CA into a Mexican dumpster!
As an example, the inspector
general offers ICE’s Los Angeles field office which has flouted federal policy
by creating its own private system of worksite enforcement. During the
three-year period considered by the watchdog the office conducted 147 investigations,
with 7% resulting in fines and 55% in warnings. Even in instances where more
than half of a business’s federal employee verification forms (known as I-9)
had “substantive errors” the federal agents in L.A. only issued warnings
instead of fines. One business mentioned in the report had its fine slashed an
astounding 78%, from $4.9 million to a little over $1 million.
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