They are adamant in Hazelton PA. Would you live in a city like this?

Question

Link to story: http://rds.yahoo.com/S=53720272/K=illegal+alien+employers/v=2/SID=e/l=NSR/R=1/;_ylt=A9htfMMehANFmd0AbTDQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHZkMjZyBHBvcwMxBHNlYwNzcg--/SIG=12n3dlmem/EXP=1157944734/*-http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060909/us_nm/usa_immigration_town_dc_1
HAZLETON, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Officials in the Pennsylvania town of Hazleton on Friday strengthened a local law designed to drive illegal immigrants away in a bid to defend the measure against legal challenges. Hazleton City Council passed a new version of the Illegal Immigration Relief Act, an ordinance first passed in July that was already one of the toughest anti-illegal immigrant laws in the country. It has since been copied by other cities where illegal immigration is blamed for rising crime and overburdened social services.The new law, approved by a vote of 4-1, increases pressure on local employers to avoid hiring illegal immigrants and raises fines for landlords who rent rooms to them. More on the link.

Answer 1

I lived there for a couple of years. It wasn't too bad then.

The main problems they had were unemployment and low wages. The area was hit pretty hard by textile plants moving overseas.

BTW, the town has now decided not to enforce the ordinance you are referring to.

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Hey WildThing - in response to your comment about me not watching the CBS news, here's what it says at Forbes.Com:
"Last week, the city of 31,000 residents agreed not to enforce the original law after the American Civil Liberties Union and Hispanic groups sued in federal court to overturn it. In return, the plaintiffs agreed not to seek an injunction against the city."

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=AsrahMOZ9J0eov8h7d2Jm4gezKIX?link=answer&qid=20060909203704AABT9TR&u=o&update=update&prev_ans_page=1

Answer 2

The federal government is not protecting us from the invasion of illegal aliens (mostly from Mexico, to the tune of 2 million per year). These people are, by definition, criminals. They are here illegally. Is that concept difficult to comprehend -- a criminal is, by definition, a law-breaker: these invaders are criminals.

Virtually all of them are very poorly educated (most have less than a sixth grade education). Many of them have criminal records in Mexico and in the US -- for both violent crimes and drug crimes. They over-crowd our prisons. They breed quickly and their young over-crowd our schools, bringing down the general level of intelligence and over-crowding special ed classes.

But the feds do nothing.

Thank god, some public servants at the local level are trying to do something about this sad situation.

My hat is off to the brave members of the City Council. It sounds like it will be a fine place to live once they purge the place of illegal aliens.

Answer 3

More cities should follow their lead......then this country would be a little bit safer. If I could find a job in my field up there, I'd move tomorrow. And Tom D. must not have been watching the CBS Evening News on Saturday when they had a major story on it - some of the illegals are already moving out due to enforcement.

Answer 4

Most countries , states, cities and towns are based on LAWS. If a squatter moves on to your land in your house you have a legal right to remove them. The legal immigrants came to this country by following the rules.
Those who did not follow the rules should be forcefully deported. Else dishonoring those who follow the rules. If we allow select people to ignore the rules / laws why not drunks, embezzler's, hookers , wife beaters, etc.
Rules are for your safety.

Answer 5

Its fantastic to make certain city officials take a stand for what's ideal. unlawful immigration harms our united states and impacts cities very much. opposite to what some reported contained in the article, unlawful immigration is a criminal offense and those stuck must be fined and deported. If the authorities began with steep fines for employers who employ illegals, finally there wouldnt be any jobs the following for them and may want to optimistically deter them from getting into our borders.

Answer 6

hmm, my grandparents live there, I heard about this last time I visited...I think it's stupid, like you don't expect everyone to ask for "proof of citizenship" or whatever papers it is. I think it will be a hard law to enforce.

Anyways, i would live there, it is a nice town, very cozy and woods-y, just their shopping mall is a little substandard. Otherwise, it is a very nice town, lots of reitred people there, great in the fall and winter because it is cold but inside it's warm, lots of little brick houses there, and big houses way out in the middle of the woods. I really like it there and I would live there.

Answer 7

Sure I'd live there.

Tom D. they had agreed not to enforce it only for the period while they were revising it. FAIR's attorney was helping them to 'bullet-proof' the language against suit. They agreed they wouldn't enforce the OLD version while that was happening.

Answer 8

the law is the law. it goes for legal and illegal. you brake the law then pay. they should of come down on land lord's along time ago. just like they did on company's.

Answer 9

Every town in America needs to do this and we would see a decline in our illegal immigrant problem and maybe our old America would be returned to us.

Answer 10

I was born in Scranton and live in the Honesdale area for years!....Good to see a fellow PA person!!!