{"id":1484,"date":"2008-04-19T18:01:45","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T22:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2008-04-19T18:06:08","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T22:06:08","slug":"fast-fact-adl-joins-maldef-in-lawsuit-to-overturn-hazleton-laws-aimed-at-illegal-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/19\/fast-fact-adl-joins-maldef-in-lawsuit-to-overturn-hazleton-laws-aimed-at-illegal-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"FAST FACT: ADL JOINS MALDEF IN LAWSUIT TO OVERTURN HAZLETON LAWS AIMED AT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.galeo.org\/story.php?story_id=0000004510\">HERE<\/a>&#8230;.from GALEO. Gracias Gerardo!<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Background:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Legal tide turns: State, local immigration laws upheld<\/strong><br \/>\nBy JULIA PRESTON<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, February 14, 2008 <\/p>\n<p><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Groups challenging state and local laws cracking down on illegal immigration won a series of high-profile legal victories last year, but the tide has shifted as federal judges recently handed down several equally significant decisions upholding those laws.<\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday, a federal judge in Arizona ruled against a lawsuit by construction contractors and immigrant organizations who sought to halt a state law that went into effect on Jan. 1 imposing severe penalties on employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants. The judge, Neil V. Wake of U.S. District Court, methodically rejected all of the contractors&#8217; arguments that the Arizona law invaded legal territory belonging exclusively to the federal government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>And, in an even more sweeping ruling in December, a judge in Oklahoma, James H. Payne, threw out a lawsuit against a state statute enacted last year requiring state contractors to verify new employees&#8217; immigration status. <em>Payne said the immigrants should not be able to bring their claims to court because they were living in the country in violation of the law<\/em>.<\/strong><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2004181428_immiglaw14.html\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HERE&#8230;.from GALEO. Gracias Gerardo! &#8212;&#8211; Background: Legal tide turns: State, local immigration laws upheld By JULIA PRESTON Thursday, February 14, 2008 The New York Times Groups challenging state and local laws cracking down on illegal immigration won a series of high-profile legal victories last year, but the tide has shifted as federal judges recently handed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}