Illegal Immigration Relief Act

In a country which has been overburdened with illegal immigrants and day workers, towns are starting to take matters into their own hands. With the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in this country, towns like Hazelton Pennsylvania have begun passing Illegal Immigration Relief Act's, which are designed to stop companys from employing illegal immigrants, as well as fining landlords for renting to them. But not if the ACLU has anything to say about.

Apparantly the ACLU (the "A" stands for American by the way) along with other civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit against Hazelton and other towns who have passed similar laws, stating these laws are "unconstitutional". Although I am sure this case will be put before a liberal judge who will agree with the ACLU, I personally cannot find anything in the constitution which protects the rights of illegal immigrants. In a recent Reuters report Omar Jadwat, an attorney for the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project was quoted as saying "This mean-spirited law is wrong for many reasons but the most obvious is that the city does not have the power to make its own immigration laws".

I wonder what the wrong reasons would be? Could the wrong reason be that Hazelton would prefer the companies in its town employ tax paying citizens as opposed to those in the town (as well as the country) illegally? And what exactly is "mean spirited" about penalizing American companies who pay illegal immigrants below minimum wage, while citizens of this great country are unemployed?

I can only hope the judge this case goes before is not some bleeding heart liberal, and can see this law for what it is, which is simply a case of stopping people here illegally from benefiting from the rights that previously were only provided to citizens.