[NormsRevenge]

On the Net:

Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund http://www.prldef.org/

Immigration Reform Law Institute
http://www.irli.org/

[Lunatic Fringe]

Farmer's Branch has become a real crappy suburb.

[Halls]

I live in the city right next to Farmer's Branch and I applaud the mayor! What is said is this guy is getting threats to his family and people have vandalized his home!

Farmer's Branch used to be a nice town but is going down hill fast like all the other city's around Dallas from all the illegals moving in. I think they just want to clean up the city and I hope it works!

[PatrickF4]

"It's basically saying those people are illegal in their very nature; it is all right to be against them because they are lawbreakers. Many people are assuming that all immigrants are lawbreakers, and that people who are different, who speak a different language, are to be shunned,"

It's our fault if they are here, so we should take care of them. We've been winking at this for over 20 years...

If it's our fault they are here, then we have the duty to send them back as quickly as possible, and to keep more from coming. And time to start enforcing the laws against the employers who encourage them.

Cheap, cheap, labor, give us that cheap cheap labor...

[TexasTransplant]

I live in a Town that is 82% Hispanic (as per the last Census), Illegal Immigrants are as welcome as a New Tax.

Those that want New Taxes or more Taxes are pro Illegals, those that don't want a New Taxes are against them. I would assume it is pretty much the same Nationwide.

Socialism will eventually have to out itself to gain any new ground, the next two years will be telling.

TT

[School of Rational Thought]

This writer uses "minority" as if referring to nonwhites. Isn't the case in Texas, that whites are now the minority?

Anyone out there?

[Kimberly GG]

"It's basically saying those people are illegal in their very nature; it is all right to be against them because they are lawbreakers. Many people are assuming that all immigrants are lawbreakers, and that people who are different, who speak a different language, are to be shunned," said Cesar Perales, president and general counsel of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund."

I love how they think that playing the 'all immigrants' and the race card will guilt us into becomming pro illegals.

[Graybeard58]

she worries that such laws will spread to other cities if the City Council approves the proposal.

Let's hope so.

[brytlea]

"It's basically saying those people are illegal in their very nature; it is all right to be against them because they are lawbreakers. Many people are assuming that all immigrants are lawbreakers, and that people who are different, who speak a different language, are to be shunned," said Cesar Perales, president and general counsel of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund.

People who do illegal things may be illegal in their very nature, I don't know. But that's not the point. However, since Cesar takes the liberty to read people's minds, I'll read his and say that he believes that the only laws that should be obeyed are those he agrees with.

susie

[gubamyster]

ping

[jmaroneps37]

This town,like many others around the country, will help bait the aclu into bringing the very constitutionality of the 10th amendment to the USSC. It is hard to see how the 10th amendment would be killed by the Court. Morover once it is re affirmed, states will begin to use it and a new birth of freedom will occur.

This is a very importnat fight. We must win and we will win.

[redstates4ever]

Good for Farner's Branch. The line has to be drawn somewhere.

[redstates4ever]

Good for Farmer's Branch. The line has to be drawn somewhere.

[WatchingInAmazement]

Vandals Target Farmers Branch Mayor’s House

‘English Only’ Debate May Have Sparked ‘Viva Mexico’ Message

(CBS 11 News)

Vandalism hit close to home this weekend for Farmers Branch Mayor Bob Phelps.

As CBS 11 first reported at 6 p.m. Saturday, the mayor discovered Friday morning vandals had spray painted “viva Mexico” on the side of his house.

By Saturday afternoon, the bright red letters had been blasted off with a high pressure wash, but some say the damage to community may be harder to fix.

“This is what happens when a community is filled with clash and conflict,” Carlos Quintanilla, with the Farmers Branch LULAC, said.

The controversy stems from a city proposal to make English the official language in the city.

In addition, the proposition --- introduced by Councilman Tim O'Hare in August --- would make it illegal in Farmers Branch for businesses to hire, and for apartment complexes to lease to, illegal immigrants. Those caught would face fines.

“It’s just a shame it had to happen,” the mayor said. “I hope they are caught, punished and prosecuted.”

Members of a Hispanic who rallied in protest against the city proposition also want the culprit caught.


Quintanilla said he doesn’t want these actions to create an even bigger rift in the community.


“If it happened to the house of the mayor, it could happen anywhere,” he said.

The city council will address the issue in executive session at the Nov. 13 meeting.

http://cbs11tv.com/politics/local_story_308223141.html

[Rastus]

Such sentiments and the proposed ordinance trouble many people in Texas, where many Latino families can trace their roots here to the era before statehood.

Those families won't have a problem. To paraphrase Carville, "It's the illegals, stupid." Lead the way, Farmers Branch! Hopefully, Garland will follow suit. I highly doubt it, unfortunately.