Fox News — Hazleton Mayor Joseph Yannuzzi said that the city plans to appeal a ruling made by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals several weeks ago calling the Illegal Immigration Relief Act and rental ordinances unconstitutional, according to the Standard Speaker, a local newspaper.
The municipal laws, which Yannuzzi said he is prepared to fight for in the U.S. Supreme Court, seek to drive out undocumented immigrants by making it impossible for them to rent in town or work for local businesses.
…Long before states such as Arizona put a global spotlight on the tensions in the United States between local and federal officials over illegal immigration, Hazleton, Pa. officials sought to take the matter into their own hands through laws targeted at undocumented immigrants.
The lead attorney on Hazleton’s behalf is a nationally known immigration hardliner, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach….
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