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This may be the future of turning around the Invasion - locally and
by state. People like Tancredo are saying that, everyone is saying
that. Two interesting things about this approach:


- It works.


- The illegal residents do just what people like me were saying they
would if you brought any enforcement at all to bear: They run away .


The Invasion isn't successful due to weak enforcement, it is due to no
enforcement. And this local enforcement strategy serves particularly
well in attacking the job-magnet: The communities willing to pass
these ordinances are true American communities, where the jobs are. If
more & more Illegals are forced to leave the heartland and retreat to
sanctuaries like LA, there will be no jobs for them there. ]


http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20060921-110748-4227r.htm


Towns take a local approach to blocking illegal aliens


More local governments across the country are trying to get tough on
businesses that encourage illegal entry into the United States, saying
they are frustrated both by Congress' failure to stop it and by rising
crime perpetrated by illegal aliens in their own communities.
    Mayor Lou Barletta of Hazleton, Pa., estimates that as "many as
half" of the estimated 10,000 Hispanics who were living in Hazleton
when it passed an ordinance in July to punish those who hire or house
illegal aliens have since left the city.
    "We've been notified by some 30 other cities in the United States
that are waiting to process such ordinances," he said yesterday in an
interview.
    In Valley Park, Mo., 20 immigrant families disappeared virtually
overnight from a high-crime apartment complex, and at least dozens
quickly left Riverside, N.J., this summer when those two small towns
passed laws cracking down on employers who hire illegal aliens and
landlords who rent to them.
    Legislation enacted this week in Suffolk County, N.Y., bars
contracts with employers who hire illegal aliens, and a measure that
would closely resemble the one enacted in Hazleton will be considered
next week in Altoona, Pa.
    "Our purpose was a matter of public safety, since there was too
much overcrowding and a serious fire" in a house filled with illegal
aliens, said Mayor Charles Hilton of Riverside, a blue-collar town of
8,000 on the Delaware River that enacted its ordinance in July.
    "Serious crime, including murder and assault, doubled in Hazleton
between 2004 and 2005," said Mr. Barletta, who cited a killing in May
for which an illegal alien has been charged.
    Mike White, chairman of the Board of Aldermen in Valley Park, said
that "it turns out a fair number of people were living and working
here illegally, and we recognized we had to do something and do it
fairly. Jobs are the magnet that draws illegals here, and the idea is
to take away that magnet."
    According to information provided by the Puerto Rican Legal
Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF) and the National Association of
Counties, laws have been passed in at least nine local jurisdictions
from South Carolina to California and are under consideration in 31
others.
    "The reality is these ordinances create division in a community,
and the motivation for them is political," said Cesar Perales,
president of PRLDEF, which is suing to overturn the Hazleton law that
prompted action in other locations.
    Mr. Perales and other critics of such legislation say the
immigration issue properly and by Supreme Court precedent belongs to
the federal government. But those backing the local measures counter
that other levels of government have a role, pointing to a 1986
federal law that recognizes licensing businesses as traditionally a
local matter.
    Bob Alexander, solicitor for Altoona, said the immigration
ordinance on which the seven-member City Council will vote Tuesday has
the support of Mayor Wayne Hippo and "was crafted very narrowly within
the confines of our authority."
    Crime by illegal aliens is a big concern in the city of 50,000,
Mr. Alexander said. "Just last week there were two trials in which the
people convicted were illegals. One defendant was a triple murderer
and the second a drug-dealer."
    Mr. Barletta said he signed two ordinances yesterday: one that
allows "legal employees to sue employers who hire illegals for lost
wages" going to people hired unlawfully, and one making English the
official language of Hazleton.
    Pennsylvania is leading the country in terms of interest in
measures such as those of Hazleton, Riverside and Suffolk County. Four
Pennsylvania jurisdictions have enacted them, and another 19,
including cities such as Wilkes-Barre and Allentown, are considering
them. Locations where such proposals have been rejected include Palm
Bay and Avon Park, Fla; Kennewick, Wash.; Forty Fort, Pa.; and
Clarksville, Tenn.
    States also have been busy enacting legislation designed to deter
employers from hiring illegals. Sixteen such bills have been passed in
eight states this year, according to the National Conference of State
Legislatures. 


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