Appeals court blocks Pa. town's(Hazelton) immigration law

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Philly.com/AP

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Hazleton, Pa., may not enforce its crackdown on illegal immigrants, dealing another blow to 4-year-old regulations that inspired similar measures around the country, including Arizona.

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia said that Hazleton's Illegal Immigration Relief Act usurped the federal government's exclusive power to regulate immigration.

"It is ... not our job to sit in judgment of whether state and local frustration about federal immigration policy is warranted. We are, however, required to intervene when states and localities directly undermine the federal objectives embodied in statutes enacted by Congress," wrote Chief Judge Theodore McKee.


Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/20100909_ap_appealscourtblockspatownsimmigrationlaw.html

[COLGATE4]

1. Good! Maybe this will finally get that asshole Barletta

to find something else to play politics with. Shame that he gave a small town that was important for years for giving peaceful safe haven to Eastern Europeans, particularly Jews an infamous reputation now for trying to persecute their Latin American inhabitants,

[Kweli4Real]

2. Okay ...

That's one appellate court ruling that the federal government has exclusive power to regulate immigration. Are you listening Arizona?