Save Our Trailer Parks from Immigrants!?

Dianne Solís of the Dallas Morning News (and here) reports on the requirement of a Texas trailer park for proof of identification from residents  ” The troubles in this neighborhood are the latest flashpoint in the national debate over illegal immigration. In some instances, municipalities, and now governing bodies of mobile home parks, have attempted to regulate whether a person without proper immigration documents is allowed to live in a given area.”

This is another example of the problems that can arise when groups other than the federal government get into the business of regulating immigration, a power primarily vested in the federal government. Rigel Oliveri has an excellent recent article (Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Landlords, Latinos, Anti-Illegal Immigrant Ordinances, and Housing Discrimination, 62 Vand. L. Rev. 55 (2009)) on this topic.  See Download Oliveri-Between-a-Rock-and-a-Hard-Place-62-Vand.-L.-Rev.-55-(2009)[1] 

KJ