ACLU Sues Nebraska Town Over Immigration Regulations
22nd July 2010
Remember Fremont, Nebraska? In June, citizens of the 25,000-person town voted in favor of banning illegal immigrants from renting property or landing a job in the town.
The law, which requires town officials to evaluate the citizenship of anyone renting property, has put the town at the center of the roiling immigration debate.
How dare they restrict the activities of, well, criminals. I guess the fact that one is here unlawfully ought not to be allowed to harsh one’s mellow. I guess the ACLU won’t be happy until every city is a Sanctuary City.
The suit claims that Fremont’s law interferes with the federal government’s authority over immigration matters and further that it has a discriminatory effect on those who look or sound “foreign.”
Not sure how helping the Feds enforce the law (which they haven’t been doing all that well so far, so obviously they need something in the way of help) “interferes” with their authority; and since all it does is allow “discrimination” against illegal aliens, and since discrimination against people who “look or sound foreign” is already against the law (and enthusiastically defended by, uh, the ACLU), it’s not clear that there would be any “effect” that a court can take cognizance of.
But that’s just common sense, and we all know that common sense doesn’t last long in the brains of the ACLU — or courts, for that matter.