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Escondido Ordinance Enjoined

A federal judge temporarily blocked the city of Escondido on Thursday from enforcing a law that punishes landlords for renting to illegal immigrants. U.S. District Judge John Houston said that he had serious questions about whether the law would survive legal scrutiny and that it may inflict “irreparable harm” on tenants and landlords. The law had been scheduled to take effect Friday in the suburb 30 miles north of San Diego, where Hispanics make up 42 percent of the 142,000 residents. Houston did not say how long his order would last, but said he would schedule a hearing within four months.  Click here for the AP story.

Farmer’s Branch (near Dallas) Ordinance Materials

Here is a copy of the recent anti-immigrant ordinance passed in Farmer’s Branch, Texas, (near Dallas) and the recent New York Times story about it. Download city_of_farmers_branch_ordinance_no_2892_2.pdf Download NYTimes_immigration_texas_nov.16.doc Thanks to Michale Olivas for the materials.

KJ