A Dallas suburb just passed an ordinance that prohibits landlords from renting to illegal aliens. This is a good law to hold these enablers accountable. Opponents are claiming they will challenge the law as unconstitutional. I just finished taking Con Law, and I can not determine what theory they will sue under. I am sure they will find a way though. Read the story here.
Also, This Day in History.
| 1607 | An English colony was settled at Jamestown in present-day Virginia. |
| 1842 | Composer Arthur Sullivan, who collaborated with William Gilbert in writing 14 comic operas, was born in London. |
| 1846 | The United States declared that a state of war existed against Mexico. |
| 1914 | Boxing champion Joe Louis was born in Lafayette, Ala. |
| 1917 | Three peasant children near Fatima, Portugal, reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary. |
| 1940 | Winston Churchill told the British House of Commons in his first speech as prime minister, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." |
| 1958 | Vice President Richard Nixon's limousine was battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela. |
| 1981 | Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter's Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca. |
| 1985 | Philadelphia police dropped an explosive onto the headquarters of the radical group MOVE; 11 people died in the resulting fire. |
| 2003 | The government unveiled a new version of the $20 bill - the first to be colorized in an effort to thwart counterfeiters. |
2 comments:
Such a claim would probably come under equal protection. Alienage is not always a protected class, but race/ethnicity is the touchstone of strict scrutiny. This law would have a discriminatory effect in that it would cause landlords to ask for papers before renting, but they realistically would only ask hispanics for papers. Discriminatory purpose might be harder to prove, but not impossible. Though with this court, that claim would probably fail.
As I recall, NT, our con law professor stated that ILLEGAL alienage is only a suspect classification in very rare circumstances.
The distinction between simple alienage and illegal alienage is crucial because people who are here illegally do not have a right to be here. As a matter of logic, the illegality of their presence ought to undermine a slew of legal rights.
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