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Small Pennsylvania city bans illegal immigrants
Wilkes-Barres Times Leader ^
| 7/13/06
| Associated Press
Posted on 07/13/2006 7:13:51 PM PDT by SaveSanBernardino
The City Council approved a law Thursday night designed to make this small city in northeastern Pennsylvania among the most hostile places in the U.S. for illegal immigrants to live or work. The 4-to-1 vote came after nearly two hours of passionate debate. Opponents argued it was divisive and possibly illegal, but supporters argued illegal immigrants' growing numbers have damaged the quality of life here.
"We must draw the line, and we are doing it tonight," Mayor Lou Barletta told a packed council chambers.
Barletta proposed the Illegal Immigration Relief Act last month as a response to what he said were Hazleton's problems with violent crime, crowded schools, hospital costs and the demand for services.
The ordinance would deny licenses to businesses that employ illegal immigrants, fine landlords $1,000 for each illegal immigrant discovered renting their properties, and require city documents to be in English only.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: aliens; illegal; illegalimmigration; immigrantlist; immigration
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To: Eaker
I tried my best, but I guess that adage about casting pearls before swine is true.
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posted on
07/14/2006 11:50:12 AM PDT
by
zook
("We all knew someone in primary school who had a really powerful magnet")
To: SaveSanBernardino
Excellent news.
A long journey begins with the first step.
62
posted on
07/14/2006 11:54:47 AM PDT
by
roaddog727
(Bullsh## doesn't get bridges built.)
To: zook
That was your best?
Then never mind.
63
posted on
07/14/2006 12:15:35 PM PDT
by
Eaker
(My Wife Rocks! - Travis McGee is my friend. “You’ll never need a gun, until you need it badly.”)
To: mission9
How far we have fallen. To have to have a law to declare illegal aliens illegal, to have to have a law which declares marriage to be between a man and a woman. To jail our own soldiers for defending themselves in battle..... the list goes on.... For this insane America we have the Republicrats, including the man in the White House, to thank.
To: Eaker
Say "hi" to Porky and Arnold for me. And I'll eagerly await the next wave of Hazelton ordinances, including the one that makes it illegal to for motels, service stations, supermarkets, and roadside vegetable vendors to do business with illegal aliens.
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posted on
07/14/2006 2:49:21 PM PDT
by
zook
("We all knew someone in primary school who had a really powerful magnet")
To: zook
More of your best?
BTW, regarding your tagline, have you tried any of the rare earth magnets? Very cool.
66
posted on
07/14/2006 3:45:39 PM PDT
by
Eaker
(My Wife Rocks! - Travis McGee is my friend. “You’ll never need a gun, until you need it badly.”)
To: ArmstedFragg
"Odd, isn't it, that the word "compromise" always comes up in more or less the same situations where the word 'truce' comes up with jihaddists?
Essentially, it means they've realized they're losing so they're offering to take only half of what that they're not entitled to instead of all of it."
EXACTLY!
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posted on
07/15/2006 1:30:32 PM PDT
by
Herakles
(Liberals are stone stupid and proud of it!)
To: Liz
"The sicko hyphenates' have a constant need for adulation, affirmation and confirmation.
The US government, and all its trappings, have been turned into psychotherapy agencies designed to mobolize government power---and our tax assets---to subsidize and shore-up the self-esteem of hyphenated groups. "
Geez, I'm breathless, --- I really don't know what to say!
That pretty much sums up this disgusting, supposedly free society that I was born into for all my life. You know, the one where "if you work hard you will be rewarded" (after everyone else eats for free at your table).
I can only hope that after all my liberal POS government has done to (robbed from) me, that they or any of their hyphenated crew is not in need of anything from me. If so, they are SOL.
Those who have worked hard, to gain the least, have the least to lose.
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posted on
07/15/2006 1:53:35 PM PDT
by
Herakles
(Liberals are stone stupid and proud of it!)
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