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HAZLETON, Pa. - A federal judge on Tuesday blocked a Pennsylvania rental law similar to a new Escondido ordinance that would fine landlords who rent to illegal immigrants. U.S. District Judge James Munley ruled that landlords, tenants and businesses that cater to Latinos faced "irreparable harm" and issued a temporary restraining order. He said it was "in the public interest to protect residents' access to homes, education, jobs and businesses." The city of Escondido recently adopted its own ordinance modeled on parts of the Hazleton law, and the North County city faces legal challenges of its own if the law...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.— The U.S. can build a wall to keep immigrants out, but it must work more closely with Mexico if it has any hope of reducing the massive flow of illegal immigrants, panelists including Gov. Bill Richardson and CNN anchor Lou Dobbs told a group of more than 2,000 Hispanic journalists Friday. Dobbs, who has campaigned intensely to strengthen border security and stop illegal immigration, blamed Mexico for the large numbers of immigrants crossing the borders. "Mexico is a shame for its people, for what it's done for its people in the last 30 years," he said, adding...

Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey waged an assault yesterday against in-state tuition rates for illegal immigrants as the students waited to urge lawmakers to approve the controversial bill. ``Breaking the law should not entitle you to public benefits,'' Healey told the Committee on Ways and Means. ``America is a nation of immigrants, but America is also a nation of laws.'' The bill, which has failed to pass before, would provide illegal immigrant students who have been in Massachusetts at least three years and graduated from a state high school the opportunity to attend state colleges and universities at the same cost...

A 35-year-old Mexican national was sentenced on Tuesday to nine years in prison for sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl after a night of drinking with her mother. Geronimo Lopes claimed he was so drunk, he has no memory of the incident, and only recalled waking up in the child’s room, said his lawyer , Tom Clark. “This case is tragic on so many levels,” Clark said. “It’s difficult to address the horrors this little girl’s had to endure.” Based on the terms of a plea agreement — under which Lopes pleaded guilty to attempted criminal sexual penetration of a minor...

... The suburbs of Montgomery County, Maryland have a reputation as a bastion of liberalism and increasingly as a region in which English is a dieing language as immigrants flood into the Washington Metropolitan Area. While these self-appointed scions of progressivism get up there and hem and haw about the wonders of multiculturalism and diversity, what they really want is an ample supply of pliant slave labor. According to the Sentinel.com , a number of migrants recently testified before the county council how their employers there forced them to engage in what amounted to a form of involuntary servitude by...

Florencio Guzman rises each day and heads to an abandoned warehouse In Phoenix with carpets on the wall.