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I hope Farmers Branch is successful.It they are then that means other cities and states can enact similar ordinances.
https://www.numbersusa.com/content/...ok-barring-illegal-aliens-rental-housing.html
Farmers Branch, Texas asked the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday to uphold a city ordinance that bans illegal aliens from renting in the town. In March, a three-judge panel of the Court invalidated the ordinance. It could take months for the Court to issue its opinion.
Commenting on the case, NumbersUSA Executive Director Roy Beck said, “Farmers Branch is small locale in the grand scheme of things but its role looms quite large. A victory for Farmers Branch means other cities will follow with similar ordinances.” NumbersUSA has given the Farmers Branch Legal Defense Fund $100,000 in support of the City’s effort to bar illegal aliens from rental housing.
Four years ago, the City passed an ordinance that requires potential renters to apply for a $5 city renting license and disclose their immigration status. Under the ordinance, city building inspectors check an applicant’s status and deny licenses to illegal aliens. Landlords who are found to have rented to illegal aliens can be fined or lose their renter’s license.
In 2010, a federal district judge invalidated the ordinance, ruling that it interfered with the federal immigration system. The three-judge panel of Circuit Court upheld that ruling. The city requested a new hearing before the full Court after the Supreme Court’s Arizona ruling in June.
At yesterday’s hearing, lead City attorney Kris Kobach said the language of the renters ban closely parallels Arizona’s immigration status check law, which requires police, after a lawful stop, to check the immigration status of suspected illegal aliens. Kobach said the ordinance explicitly bars City inspectors from making their own immigration-status determinations. "It must always be done by the federal government," he said
https://www.numbersusa.com/content/...ok-barring-illegal-aliens-rental-housing.html
Farmers Branch, Texas asked the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday to uphold a city ordinance that bans illegal aliens from renting in the town. In March, a three-judge panel of the Court invalidated the ordinance. It could take months for the Court to issue its opinion.
Commenting on the case, NumbersUSA Executive Director Roy Beck said, “Farmers Branch is small locale in the grand scheme of things but its role looms quite large. A victory for Farmers Branch means other cities will follow with similar ordinances.” NumbersUSA has given the Farmers Branch Legal Defense Fund $100,000 in support of the City’s effort to bar illegal aliens from rental housing.
Four years ago, the City passed an ordinance that requires potential renters to apply for a $5 city renting license and disclose their immigration status. Under the ordinance, city building inspectors check an applicant’s status and deny licenses to illegal aliens. Landlords who are found to have rented to illegal aliens can be fined or lose their renter’s license.
In 2010, a federal district judge invalidated the ordinance, ruling that it interfered with the federal immigration system. The three-judge panel of Circuit Court upheld that ruling. The city requested a new hearing before the full Court after the Supreme Court’s Arizona ruling in June.
At yesterday’s hearing, lead City attorney Kris Kobach said the language of the renters ban closely parallels Arizona’s immigration status check law, which requires police, after a lawful stop, to check the immigration status of suspected illegal aliens. Kobach said the ordinance explicitly bars City inspectors from making their own immigration-status determinations. "It must always be done by the federal government," he said
