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Restraining order sought against new Farmers Branch rental ban
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STEPHANIE SANDOVAL
Dallas Morning News
September 12, 2008
Anyone who wants to rent a house or apartment in Farmers Branch will have to obtain a city license starting Monday unless opponents persuade one of two courts today to issue a temporary restraining order.
Attorneys for both sides will go before U.S. District Judge Jane Boyle at 2 p.m. for one hearing. The proceeding is part of a lawsuit that seeks to overturn the ordinance, the city’s latest strategy for barring housing rentals to illegal immigrants.
The plaintiffs say the law discriminates against Hispanics and is unconstitutional. The city counters that it is aimed at lawbreakers, not any ethnic group.
It’s not known what Judge Boyle will do. A different federal judge, Sam Lindsay, in May struck down a previous ordinance banning apartment rentals to most illegal immigrants and harshly criticized the new measure as “yet another attempt to circumvent … prior rulings and further an agenda that runs afoul of the United States Constitution.”
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Cases are randomly assigned to judges in the federal court, and Judge Boyle drew the latest lawsuit.
Hedging their bets, the plaintiffs’ attorneys, led by Bill Brewer, also petitioned in state District Court on Thursday for a restraining order.
That request is the latest motion in a previously filed lawsuit by a Farmers Branch resident alleging that the city violated the Texas Open Meetings Act in its discussion of the new measure, Ordinance 2952.
Filed with the request was a copy of an e-mail from Tim O’Hare – then a City Council member, now mayor – that included a draft ordinance similar to Ordinance 2952 but with substantially different wording.
City Manager Gary Greer has said the council didn’t see the Farmers Branch ordinance until a few days before approving it in January. The plaintiffs say the O’Hare e-mail, sent to someone called “SWS” six months before the vote, shows the council improperly deliberated and discussed the ordinance in secret.
Mr. O’Hare denied the charge.
“There are model ordinances addressing this issue floating around all over the country,” he said Thursday.
“We didn’t do anything illegal. We’ve never done anything illegal, and any assertion that we have is just garbage.”
If no restraining order is issued, renters starting Monday will have to get an occupancy license by paying $5 and declaring their U.S. citizenship or legal residency. The city plans to check the immigration status of non-citizens in a federal database called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE.
But the checks may have to wait. Chief building inspector Jim Olk said Thursday that the city hasn’t reached an agreement with U.S. Customs and Immigration Services to access the database.
The city started the process in January, when Ordinance 2952 was adopted, but was turned down then because the ordinance was not in effect.
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September 12th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
I think it is good to stop Illegials before they come in but denying them a home is just wrong.
September 12th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Once they rent or buy why can’t they be deported. The people that rent to them or sell to them should be charged with aiding and abetting a felon. Thats a felony.
September 12th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Per household, so that’s like what, fourteen mexicans in one pop. Go home and get in the back of the line Paco.
September 12th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Somehow the mexicans make themselves look worse than I could ever do. It’s like the faggots who go on parade and exhibit the most obscene behaviors imaginable. First they send one with a suit and tie and a good job, and then there are a whole bunch of nice folks that are pretty ordinary, and then it becomes difficult to hand onto the lawnmower you used to keep in your shed.
I live in a town right next to Farmer’s Branch. There are all kinds of mexicans and blacks here. They are pretty much top quality for their race. You would think that they would be the first ones to protest illegality attached to their race as being stigmatic, but they don’t. Not much anyway. (That’s for those of you who like to mention the exceptions.) Oh, I think that first judge was black, but I could be wrong.
September 12th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
They had a home Dan, they chose to leave it. That’s the very mentality that got us into the mess we’re in today involving illegals. I agree we’ve made it too easy for them to come here illegally but they are still breaking the law. I say quit giving them jobs and home loans and checking accounts and free health care, and they will all leave.
September 12th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Denying them a home? Man, I am so sick of people defending the poor illegals. Who is defending the poor Americans?
I came to my town in the 70s. It was predominately white then. Lots of jobs.
Now, the population is almost all Mexican, a large percentage being illegal. It looks like Mexico here……a dirty little third world town, with no jobs but the beef plant.
The Mexicans go around saying they are doing jobs no white will do. Pretty ignorant thing to say, considering those jobs were filled with whites long before their ignorant asses came along and stole the jobs by working for dollars an hour less.
Everyone says, Oh, my, they are only doing the jobs no ones else wants, but the truth is they are stealing the jobs that good people once had.
It’s the Reconquista baby! USA muuuy bueno!!
September 12th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
first off the US bill of rights does not apply to illigal tresspassers
first they brake the law entering and brake more laws and some come to commit crimes deliver drugs or
come to pump up the racist yellow vote
and currently are given more things like free collage jobs and schooling
and did i forget where MS13 came from
MS 13 came from illigal imigation
and where did mexican mob come from
illigal imigration
where did AZTLAN come from Illigal tresspass of US borders
and yet some come for freedom and other come for polical left wing war against the middle class
i dont hate latin people
I hate lawlessness
Come into the front door says JESUS
anyone who comes in anyother way is a thief and a robber
i hate none but sin and death
we must show them mercy and also gracefuly apply the law
September 12th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
i live right next to farmers branch. the local government is out of control and extremely racist. racial profiling is quite normal here
September 12th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Lancaster, Pennsylvania needs the same plan. my whole town is overrun. a white boy cAnt even get a parking space out hee
September 12th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Beware what you wish for…. just because you want illegals outta here. When you start demanding government to want “their” papers, yours too will be demanded. I don’t care to live some place where that is the policy. Illegals are to be stopped at the borders. If you want the whole of the interior of the country to be policed this way, you may as well admit you live in a police state because that is what it will become.
September 12th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
It’s racist to object to your home being fucking overrun……….
You’ll have La Raza on your ass.
September 12th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Lancaster, PA?
I haven’t been in years, but I always thought of the Pennsylvania Dutch and potato bread.
Don’t tell me the Latins turned Dutch Wonderland into South of the Border?
September 12th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
I think they want to use the illegal issue to make it so every citizen has to show the city who you are before you can live there thus controlling the people and their movements even more. The already make it so you can’t travel too far without a loan for gas, they have restricted what you can take out of the country money and investment wise. Your new passports all have rfid and so do you think they are leaving the back door open for no reason?
September 13th, 2008 at 1:05 am
Dan: “Is just wrong to not house ILLEGALS!!!” Well open up your home to all of em’!!! They left their home and came here!!! Do you honestly believe that as an illegal in mexico you would be treated as such??? DEPORTATION REFORM IS THE ONLY ANSWER!!! OKLAHOMA ring a bell DAN??? NO EMPLOYING, HOUSING, or TRANSPORTING ILLEGALS is PERMITTED!!!! 20k have already fled the state!!! #3: Damn Skippy!!! “All HAIL Thermal Expansion!!!”
September 13th, 2008 at 3:15 am
hey catcher in the rye.
its puerto ricans- which is worse because you still get all the double parking and attitudes of entitlement with little trouble…cause we own that miserable island
September 13th, 2008 at 5:02 am
what if you didnt own a God damn thing but Europe. Where would you be Duke Nasty?
September 13th, 2008 at 5:03 am
Allow this.
September 13th, 2008 at 8:37 am
There is an affordable housing crisis where I live–New York City, and probably many other places in the USA. Preventing illegal aliens from renting could free up housing for US citizens and green card holders. Also, disallowing renting to illegal aliens could prevent murders. The actress/director Adrienne Shelly was murdered by an illegal alien when she complained to him about the incessant noise he was making off-hours in renovating an apartment adjoining hers. He later stated that he was afraid she’d call the Police and he’d be deported. He lived in a space he rented from his employer, in Brooklyn.
I agree with some of the posters here that if we crack down on illegals, it could spawn mechanisms by which citizens also lose their rights. That’s why everything must be done very carefully, with full respect for all. We must also be sure that there is someone legal ready to fill any job that an illegal is prevented from taking, and make sure that the channels to legal immigration are reasonable and practical.
September 13th, 2008 at 8:46 am
I’ve seen wages in my area plummet due to illegals.
Send them the hell back to whence they came!
Why should these invaders be able to raise rents in addition to killing our wages!
The USA is OUR country!!!
September 13th, 2008 at 10:18 am
I have a super idea, why don’t they all join lulac and unite and go back whence they came from,
September 13th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Just wondering, but there have been a couple of topics discussed like “anti-semitism” and eugenics on this site. You can’t discuss these things in public, especially in universities. If you begin to discuss Race, Genetics, anti-Semitism and so on in one place, you will really get so much hostility that only the really thick skinned will continue a dialogue.
Not only was Hitler right about some things, but so was the South before the war.
All the communist have to do is say that these theories are “outdated” and that phrase alone shuts off 80% of people who claim to know how to read.
“Oh yeah! Well your outdated theories are more outdated than my outdated theories! So there!!”
Will an outright discussion of “Race” be next? Racial hatred is generated by the forced proximity of dissimilar races.
September 13th, 2008 at 11:06 am
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September 13th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
OK, here is the deal. My house is not too far from that well about 25 miles or so. They are trying to crack down on those that came across the border. I mean you got music that you can not understand playing all nights of the week, you got ol’ boose bottle out on the grass, you got folks do not care about us, except to make a buck and then leave to go back to mexico. Then they tear up the house they rent, and you get gun shots all the time…you think the city is being mean. I think NOT…OH I am not a against the hispanics’ by any means, its just the ones who act improper and disrespect us and your country and mine….OH our minster says to welcome them, I do, but ones that show of kindness and want to make a difference in their lifes….NOT get drunk and act like animals….
September 13th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
People who rent their properties to the public were legally entitled to a background check, in this country, in the first place. In terms of renting houses, it was divisive for citizenship to have even been mentioned at City Hall.
Also, for assuming that the illegals would necessarily be Latino, the protestors are racist. Races of people, including whites, who are not even propagandized as “undesirable,” are deported every day.
Now, here comes some fundie talk. So, if you’re not predestinated to be one, turn your brain off, now.
As the prophesied, End Times, universal ID is fast approaching, Christians ought to beware that all this talk of documentation applies to them.
(Yes, churchian gnostics and “agnostic” poseurs, we know what you’ll do, too.)
September 13th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
“The plaintiffs say the law discriminates against Hispanics and is unconstitutional. The city counters that it is aimed at lawbreakers, not any ethnic group.”
This is the part that really gets me going. Every time Americans try to stop the illegal’s rights to live in our communities it is called RACIST. Now we all know this is just to shift the attention away from the fact people who are here illegally have ZERO constitutional rights, because those rights are for us the actual citizens.
They do not want to talk about the fact this type of check would be done on every single applicant not just the mexian looking people who want an apt. How then is it discriminatory?
September 13th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Look over the Patriot Act. It mentions Border Security for the North, but nothing is mentioned about securing the South!
September 13th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Those people that support the illegals never talk about La Reconquista. They intend this invasion as just that. They are taking what we got and someone is gonna ask me to support that?
This country is irreparably damaged now. What do you suppose the future, if there is any, will be like when they have multiplied more? Third world, that’s what. They bring the third world with them.
I wouldn’t wanna live in Mexico and I don’t want the Mexicans coming here.
September 14th, 2008 at 6:49 am
As Fort Worth native that is a disgraceful KKK town. I hope they get stuck with a lot of legal fees and still lose. Most of the people in support are rich ass white people that give same respond as #23. Who probably hire mexicans to mow their grass for $30 dollars(they only get a percentage because work for white guy) because they are too lazy. They rent house because owners of white companies hire them to work in factories for less than 9.00 an hour. While they live in homes that cost like 300k and up and still have money in the bank. I was bookkeeper and I saw how owner lived on nice lake house with extra home yet most of his employee barely afford home in Mexican areas or rent. That is only one company I am sure their is more. A lot of buffets hire them at 2.15an hour according to my friend back in Hong Kong. No wonder you get a buffet for $8 and its all fat asses can eat till they get sick and we have to pay for their healthcare. This is Fucked country times it goes broke and start over right in Washington!
September 14th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
It shouldn’t be about race,if someone is here illegally they have to legal right to stay in the first place,not a tough situation to deal with.If predatory employers like wal-mart,the meat packing industry and large farms were prosecuted and shut down,illegals wouldn’t be here anyway they would have no economic reason to be here.Why complicate something any further than necessary?
September 14th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
“When the US turns into a dictatorship and they start killing and dissapearing you truthers, I will break the Mexican laws in order to help you into Mexico. I will put your humanity and dignity over those unfair Mexican laws and help you and your families. Just as I am now helping the mexican that are here illegaly against racists here in America,” said La Vedad.
I was clear in regards to everything you wrote, except for what you view as racism. I think you might be spamming, because you never tell me why you won’t break the law in Mexico, in order to obtain honorable working conditions, there.
September 14th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
go to mexico?by that time mexico will have been infiltrated too,just as they are now,with nwo scum elite who will have already set up the death camps there,for the people of mexico who finally wake up and act…………the nwo is the same in all countries………..the nwo…..someone needs to do there homework
September 14th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
In the middle 1940s, a book came out called “I Led 3 Lives” by Herbert A Philbrick. This man had been approached by a communist who asked him to join the party. He went to the FBI and they asked him to join. So for several years he led three lives, Citizen, Communist, and Counterspy for the FBI. One of the first spy serials on TV was about Herbert Philbrick. It was in black and white, since color TV did not exist.
In the book, there is a picture of his Communist Party Card. On it is the following:
RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF PARTY MEMBERS
To attend club meetings, read the Party press, and the literature, pay dues regularly and be active on behalf of the program and policies of the Party.
To at all times loyally defend the integrity for the “workingclass” against the forces of fascism and reaction.
To fight against all forms of national oppression, discrimination and segregation and all ideological influences of “racial” theories.
To fight for the full social, political and economic equality of the Negro people, for Negro and white equality.
To participate in working out all policies and tasks of the club, and to regularly examine the execution of such policies.
To vote for all officers, committees and delegates, and be elected to any office or committee in accord with provisions of the Constitution.
To appeal any decision with which there is disagreement to the next higher body, carrying out the decision while appeal is pending.
To strive to master the program and policies of the Party, the principles of Marxism-Leninism.
Ps. The punctuation is faithfully duplicated. The mass media campaign agains racism is Marxist in origin.
September 14th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
“Now we all know this is just to shift the attention away from the fact people who are here illegally have ZERO constitutional rights, because those rights are for us the actual citizens.”
Actually you ignorant buffoon, Constitutional Rights are guaranteed for every person on US soil… period.
Go back to school.
September 15th, 2008 at 9:17 am
when the goverment cotrol all of the crime ,drugs ,weapons and the people only has to go work and protect them selves is very dificult to start a revolution ,also the goverment in mexico confuses the people said :”is our oil .our gold and on and on ” do not let the invaders come i t damage the soberany of our country ; i will saY : G.W. bush want oil take all the oil in the gulp of mexico but remove all the tyrants on goverment in mexico tak it i a mexican will give up the oil in exchange for peace and the right to a decent way of life plese take it !
September 15th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Atom C.- The ignorant buffoon quip was really witty, but , the go back to school remark just drove the point home!
Your bud A. C. seems to hold more of a grasp on the issue than your giving him credit for. Your about half right about your belief that the constitution holds every person sovereign. But, even when the beloved Constitution was drafted it held slaves and non citizens as 3/5’s of a person.
Yet, when acts of war and invasion have been occurring all along the boarder from Texas to California and have been since these territories were obtained by Anglo-American settlers… These people have by right proven themselves enemies. Little known fact, Gen. G. Pershing rode in to Mexico city and threatend the Mexican Government with swift retaliation for it’s army’s night time invasions and killing spree’s along the U.S. boarder.
P.S. Google- “The plan of San Diego”.