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Use these points to educate family, friends and community members or as background for your letter-to-the-editor, episode screening, or media alert.
Across the U.S., local municipalities are passing anti-immigrant ordinances that have serious legal flaws and waste taxpayer money on misguided policies.
These ordinances:
- violate the longstanding constitutional principle that immigration regulation is under the sole jurisdiction of the federal government.
- invite discrimination against anyone who speaks with an accent or looks "foreign," and prevent innocent people from finding employment or housing.
- damage a town’s economy by driving out a vibrant entrepreneurial immigrant community.
Support from the experts:
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American Friends Service Committee
"Anti-immigrant ordinances diminish justice for all community members by promoting division, the denial of civil liberties, and discrimination." -
Judge James Munley, after ruling on a local anti-immigrant ordinance in Hazleton, PA
"Whatever frustrations officials of the City of Hazleton may feel about the current state of federal immigration enforcement, the nature of the political system in the United States prohibits the City from enacting ordinances that disrupt a carefully drawn federal statutory scheme."
