Latino leader: Laws hurt business - Hazleton, Pennsylvania

Posted on: November 3rd, 2006
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“A Latino leader in Hazleton agreed with a federal judge who said the city’s Illegal Immigration Relief Act and landlord-tenant ordinance could do “irreparable harm” to businesses. Lechuga.jpg“The Latino business is affected. Some owners think of moving,” Dr. Agapito Lopez said on Wednesday, a day after federal Judge James Munley issued an order restraining Hazleton from enforcing the laws for two weeks.
Munley, in his opinion in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania in Scranton, said the city laws could do “irreparable harm” to businesses that cater to Latinos.”

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