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September 10, 2010

Court Rules Against Anti-Immigrant Law in Penn. City
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A Philadelphia federal appeals court has struck down a law in the
Pennsylvania city of Hazleton aimed at barring undocumented immigrants
from working or renting homes there. The court said the local laws
violated federal prerogatives on immigration issues. Vitold Valchek, the
legal director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania, praised the ruling.

Vitold Valchek: "Four years ago Hazelton passed the first law in the
country attempting to drive out unlawful immigrants and this sparked a
wave of copycat laws across the country that tore communities apart
along ethnic lines and today’s decision is a pointed repudiation of such
local anti-immigration laws and should serve as a warning to other
communities similar misguided legislation."



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