Cities Beware: Defending Anti-Immigrant Ordinances Can Cost Big Bucks!

Dianne Solís of thr Dallas Morning News reports on how expensive Farmer’s Branch is finding is losing legal defense of its anti-immigrant ordinance:  “The Bickel & Brewer Storefront law firm submitted a bill for $850,000 this week in federal court for its share of costs in the successful challenge to the constitutionality of the ordinance. A second legal team is expected to submit a bill for a similar sum this month. Already, Farmers Branch has spent about $3.2 million to defend itself since September 2006, when it launched the first of three ordinances. The city has budgeted $623,000 for legal expenses through the rest of the fiscal year related to the ordinance defense.”

KJ