Escondido votes to draft ban on renting to illegal immigrants in California
Tagged: citizenship, Escondido“If we were to enforce our current immigration laws, we wouldn’t be having this hearing today,” Mallon said. “And some of our speakers wouldn’t be here, either.”
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“I spent those years (in the military) so we could be free,” Rodriguez, 67, said. “I didn’t spend those years so that my citizenship could be challenged if I come to rent a place in Escondido.”
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“I spent those years (in the military) so we could be free,” Rodriguez, 67, said. “I didn’t spend those years so that my citizenship could be challenged if I come to rent a place in Escondido.”
“Drawing on similar efforts around the country, a divided City Council voted Wednesday to begin drafting an ordinance that would ban illegal immigrants from renting property in Escondido.
Before casting its 3-2 vote, the council listened to more than two hours of impassioned pleas from community members on the merits or faults of the proposal, the brainchild of Councilwoman Marie Waldron.
Cast as a debate on how to combat overcrowding in the city’s residential neighborhoods, Waldron’s plan hinges on prohibiting landlords from renting their property to anyone who cannot prove United States citizenship.”
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August 17th, 2006
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