Posted on 05/23/2010 7:49:35 AM PDT by george76
A federal judge is preventing a New York town from enforcing its “unconstitutional” law prohibiting illegal immigrant day laborers from seeking work on public property and people from hiring them.
Oyster Bay, a Long Island town of about 300,000 residents, passed the public safety measure last fall because day laborers—and those who hire them—were creating dangerous traffic situations in the municipality’s main roads. The ordinance prohibits pedestrians from soliciting employment and bars drivers from stopping to hire workers.
This week a group of day laborers filed a lawsuit claiming that the town enacted a law with a “discriminatory community animus” against Latinos. The measure was passed to prevent Latino day laborers from soliciting work in Oyster Bay so as to drive them out of their communities and out of the sight of residents who wish they were not there, according to the complaint filed for the illegal aliens by a civil rights group.
Town officials say the traffic problem has been brewing for years and they had no choice but to take action because the federal government “has turned its back on immigration enforcement.” Day laborers and those who try to hire them are warned about the law before being fined $250 for each subsequent offense.
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ANARCHY! We are now living in a land where our Government condones illegal activity from the top down. I’m afraid the 2010 elections will have no effect on our country’s demise.
Our local cops here in the Adirondack Mountains of NY already arrest any illegal reported by us hillbillies. We call it trespassing. We got guns too.
Good.
Guess there’s just no point in voting then is there?
The judge must need some yardwork done on the cheap. Can’t go paying citizen wages now, can we?
Screw the judge. These sick liberal judges are the scourge of America.
Oyster Bay is a pretty ritzy town. I wonder where the judge lives.
No doubt he has lawn, gardening and interior carpentry demolition work available for people with, ahem, irregular documents.
Say that enough and it'll kick Google.com into bringing him to the top of the list of referrals.
They should have called it the Safe Streets Kid Safety Act
BTW, I got the information in this thread from the court’s website at http://www.nyed.uscourts.gov/General_Information/Court_Phone_Book/Senior_Judges/senior_judges.html (just for you folks who think that ought to be a secret or something).
Yup! They could all do what TN did and pass a mandatory ID for beer law. It did wonders.
Last time I was in Southampton, I was amazed at the dozens of “esquineros” waiting on the main road into town.
Even on public property when you set about filming a federal judge you will get into some really serious trouble with several federal laws that protect them. So don’t even think about it. Just make sure the illegals find his courtroom.
In all of the small towns in Southern AZ, they all had immigrant labor as maids, gardeners etc. Not a big problem until the illegals overran the nation and her resources.
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