Voters in Texas Suburb OK Anti-Illegal Immigrant Ordinance

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[gop4lyf]

http://www.dallasnews.com/

I live in Mesquite which is about 20 minutes from Farmers Branch so I woke up this morning and started looking for the results. It is on Fox's front page as well as the front page of the Dallas Morning News website, but not a word about it on the CNN site that I could find.

[gitmo]

Am I correct in my belief that Dallas is not a conservative stronghold? If that’s true, this is even more profound.

[benjibrowder]

CNN doesn’t want to put the idea in others peoples heads. So, they will ignore it.

[gop4lyf]

Dallas County usually goes blue, but the surrounding counties are all red. Farmers Branch is inside of Dallas County.

[EagleUSA]

Spread the word — America is finally waking up and doing something about the absence of federal protection our borders we are suffering dearly from.

[Man50D]

An increasing number of municipalities are supporting similar measures. Hopefully it will force more illegals to leave the U.S. if it continues to spread nationwide.

[sinanju]

It looks more and more that illegal immigration action will have to bubble up from below, rather than be imposed from the top down, just like welfare reform in the last decade.

What we need right now is a few big-city mayors and a state governor or two to come on board and lend their weight to this effort to give it some serious momentum and suddenly we’ll find ourselves rolling this boulder downhill rather than up.

[longtermmemmory]

OH!

FNC tells us its OOOOOONLY a suburb. Somewhere out in the middle of nowhere. Not anyplace important like houston, or austin.

Nowhere near Kahlieeforneea or Neeeew York City.

Malibu will rent to illegals. Any illegal who can aford their own multi million beachhouse.

[sinanju]

As an aside, is it in Dallas/Fort Worth where I read that illegals are issued a “gold card” that entitles them to free medical care on demand or is that an urban legend?

[Road Warrior ‘04]

I checked Drudge this morning and all it had was the article about the referendum. No results posted yet. Drudge is usually ahead of the curve.

With that said, it appears to be great news.

[texanyankee]

I figured it would pass, but had no idea it would be by such an overwhelming margin.

Council members approved the ordinance in November, then revised it in January to include exemptions for minors, seniors and some families with a mix of legal residents and illegal immigrants.

I dont like this exemption....you can bet it will be used & abused......

[Joe Boucher]

Great, and some a.c.l.u. type puke will get it thrown out by some clinton appointed judge.

[stm]

Out-freakin’-standing!

Let’s hope this starts a flood of similary legislation. The ACLU will be up to their worthless assess in paperwork for the next 20 years. Fuggem.

[TexasGunLover]

Am I correct in my belief that Dallas is not a conservative stronghold? If that’s true, this is even more profound.

Dallas proper, or rather the city of Dallas is mainly minority voters looking for handouts and thus very liberal. Most of the surrounding suburbs are largely conservative.

[TexasGunLover]

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/countymapredbluelarge.png

Dallas County was red in 2004, but Blue in 2006.

[unixfox]

The ban was approved by a vote of 68 percent to 32 percent in final, unofficial returns.

It's the 32 percent that will ignore the ban. And...it's that same 32 percent that will most likely live in the neighborhoods that illegals will also be.

[unixfox]

It looks more and more that illegal immigration action will have to bubble up from below, rather than be imposed from the top down, just like welfare reform in the last decade.

That same scenario has worked well for the anti-smokers, give em an inch and they take a hundred miles.

[TLI]

FB is almost exactly in the middle of the North Dallas and the 20 some-odd heavily populated "suburbs" that comprise the DFW area with a population of 5.7 MILLION.  Yep, just a little hick town Hooterville, pay no attention, doesn't matter, totally insignificant.

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

“An increasing number of municipalities are supporting similar measures.”

I believe Manassas, Virginia is also implementing similar ordinances. (Correct me if I’m wrong, Virginians!) That close to D.C. ought to be even more of a wake-up to Congress!

[ustanker]

Geraldo will have a fit with this!