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This episode puts a spotlight on ordinances that seek to curb illegal immigration in towns across America, and end up fostering a climate of xenophobic fear. By punishing landlords and business owners who rent to or employ undocumented immigrants, such ordinances violate the Constitution, which extends protections to all people in this country and makes the federal government responsible for regulating immigration. These initiatives have stoked the flames of anti-immigrant sentiment, and have led many people to leave the towns they once loved and helped to revitalize.