[Star Traveler]

I looked it up. Apparently it was never enforced, and now it’s been “thrown out”!

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Before he took his place as a rank-and-file congressman, Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.) was a go-it-alone, illegal-immigrant-busting, small-town mayor of Hazleton, Pa., population about 25,000.

Hazleton, nestled in Northeast Pennsylvania’s coal region, hit the national stage in 2006 when Barletta pushed through one of the nation’s strictest anti-illegal immigration ordinances, including a provision that penalizes landlords who knowingly rent to illegal immigrants.

A lawsuit over the never-enforced statute has ping-ponged through the court system since then, with a Philadelphia-based federal appeals court most recently striking it down. The Supreme Court declined to hear Hazleton’s appeal Monday.

Barletta, now nationally well-known (or infamous, depending on perspective), rode chest-puffed to Congress on the 2010 Republican wave. He told the Loop on Monday that while “very disappointed” in the high court’s decision, he will not give up his quest to weed out illegal immigrants.

“That’s the end of it,” Barletta said sourly, though he cited another federal appeals court ruling that upheld a similar law.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2014/03/04/rep-lou-barletta-from-small-town-mayor-to-illegal-immigrant-basher-to/

[FlJoePa]

I know the landlord law never got enacted, but if I recall, he was instructing police officers to check ID and deport more than a few roaches.

[Smokin' Joe]

How can an illegal immigrant have standing in a matter of American jurisprudence when they are breaking Federal Law just to be here, but American citizens are denied cert for lack of standing when they seek to have a fundamental Constitutional requirement upheld?

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