Farmers Branch Folly: Local Immigration Laws Do More Harm than Good

“I recently returned from a week in Texas, where people were in an uproar about the vote by the city council in Farmers Branch, a Dallas suburb, in favor of tough-on-illegal-immigration ordinances that, among other things, would impose a fine on landlords who rent to illegal immigrants.

In the absence of badly-needed action to reform immigration laws to make it easier for hard-working immigrants to come here legally so that it is feasible to enforce workplace labor and immigration violations, state and now local governments have been approving increasingly draconian laws to punish illegal immigrants and those who rent to or hire them.”

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