Hazelton ans Riverside
 

Hazelton, PA and Riverside, NJ have recently enacted laws that penalize those who knowingly rent to or employ illegal immigrants. There has been uproar from the Latino community, claiming the laws are racially motivated, and suits have been filed charging that the laws are unconstitutional.

Are they?

The laws don't single out "Latino illegal immigrants" to my knowledge. If they included ALL lawbreakers (penalize knowingly renting to/employing a robber or murderer) the new laws certainly couldn't be viewed as discriminatory, could they?

Personnally, I think fewer illegals would come/stay here if there weren't jobs for them or places to live, and these types of laws would have a chilling effect on employers and landlords. I don't have a problem with foreigners wanting to be here, I just think if they want to be in America, they should become citizens and live up to all the obligations that come with citizenship.

Good for those towns. I'd love to see that in other communities.

Is there a link to that? I'd just love to hear their argument that this is somehow racially motivated. I'm been needing a good laugh since class started...

Since rental property owners can't easily confirm whether someone is illegal, they'll just avoid making a problem for themselves by only renting to those "obviously from the area".

Links:

http://www.prldef.org/Civil/Hazelton...0immigrants%22

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...082101484.html

http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jh...rc=rss/topNews

Reminds me of: "they ran like foreigners"...

What sort of ID is currently required when renting? Is it something that can prove legal residency? If not, will a landlord be asking for additional paperwork if a person 'seems illegal'?

I, _________________, swear that I am a legal resident of the USA.:rolleyes:

So what would you have illegal immigrants do? Live outside and be homeless?

Sure, "outside" the country !!! :stickpoke

"OK, The rent's $550. a month, first and last and a security deposit. You pay for all utilities and trash removal. Just sign the lease here and here, and could you just run down to the end of the block and back?

'Preciate it. Thanks."

:::actually laughed out loud:::

Simple, currently unemployed Americans. If we went one step furthing and started cutting benefits to the able-bodied unemployed (those who do not have a medically documented dehabilitating condition) you'd be amazed how many people come out of the woodwork.

Employers will raise wages to attract workers if the alternative is having their crop rot in the field, they'll just put up a royal bitch-fest about it.