From the article;
The city created the program because U.S. legislators dont have the will to pass a coherent border strategy, the mayor said Tuesday. Instead legislators have allowed immigrants to move here, but forced them to be invisible, said the mayor.
From the truling against Hazelton, PA
“Whatever frustrations ... the city of Hazleton may feel about the current state of federal immigration enforcement, the nature of the political system in the United States prohibits the city from enacting ordinances that disrupt a carefully drawn federal statutory scheme,” Munley wrote.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus