Who's rights are being violated. ??
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Just sitting here shaking my head and wondering when our government will start caring about its own LEGAL citizens.
Law Abiding American's constitutional rights are being violated!
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It's not discrimination. I wnat to know how in the heck these people rent places anyway. Wheneer I was renting, I had to show valid proof of ID and get a complete criminal and credit check done. Duh! Thats just standard procedure down here
Discrimination in housing is a violation of Federal law. A local ordinance does not trump federal law. Even well-purposed, we can't have know-nothing landlords violating people's rights. The people in Farmer's Branch, Texas were both stupid and wrong to make immigration judges out of property owners.
It's called legislating from the bench.
They did the exact same thing in California in 1994. Californians passed prop 187 by a landslide. This would have been landmark legislation with the potential to turn the tide of the illegal aliens flooding the state and inundating its' social welfare programs.
The ACLU filed suit, one judge set the law aside. In 1998, a Governor that was later impeached and fought against prop 187 decided that prop 187 would go to arbitration and he would take the FOR side. Consequently the bill simply died a slow death without the courts ever hearing it.
Simply put, the will and desire of millions of Californians was subverted by a handful of political elites.
Take a lesson from California and salute the judge with the middle finger of both hands fully extended. Illegal aliens do it every day with regard to our immigration laws so why can't we?
Tell the judge that until the court makes a decision one way or another the law stands!
Not dead on the head ....but you're close!
It makes no sense. Landlords can be prosecuted for upholding the law, and for not doing so. At any judge's discretion. Perhaps our government will find a way to take people's property with all this confusion in the law. Oh yeah, they already do.
All Americans rights are being violated. The judges in this country don't know what illegal means anymore. That judge in Texas needs to be remove from the bench or better yet, shot!
The illegal and their supports have cornered the market on working the system for their own needs. Just wait till the illegals get amnesty, we will be paying, and paying. Then in turn they will bring in the family and friends, both ilegally and llegal
Your comparing apples with potatoes ones a fruit ones a veg before you try and correct..
Go rob your bank it has no comparison.
And its plain dumb to make a landlord turn into an immigration officer.
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Id love to take the law into my own hands
It makes no sense what-so-ever and it is violating the rights of every law abiding citizen.
I can't understand how they can say "no smoking" or "no pets" and it's legal..but housing illegals is ok. Guess we all might as well just start doing what we darn well please and then hide out in some church or bust into someones home and just take over till people come around to this insanity. Works for them? Why not me?
YOU BE THE JUDGE
Immigration Records : We are all descended from immigrants. Whether they came to America in prehistoric times via the Bering Strait or later on ships, or airplanes, at some point in history, every person's ancestors came from somewhere else. Every American hoping to link generations and reach back in time will ultimately be faced with immigration questions. Fortunately in modern times, we can find answers within the pages of immigration records. The origins of most immigrants are documented in a wide variety of these sources.
Types of Immigration Records TOP^
Although the databases at Ancestry.com contain a variety of immigration records, most records in the collection fall into these two categories:
Passenger Lists
In 1819, the United States Congress enacted legislation to regulate the transport of passengers from foreign ports to the United States. As a provision of this act, ships' captains were required to submit a list of passengers to the collector of customs in the district in which the ship arrived. These passenger lists comprise the vast majority of immigration records. The content of passenger lists has changed significantly over the years and information is sparse on earlier lists.
Passenger lists typically include these types of information:
Name
Age
Occupation
Place of origin
Destination in the United States
Name and type of ship
Port and date of departure
Port and date of arrival
View an original passenger list
Naturalization Records
Naturalization is the legal procedure by which an alien becomes a citizen of a state or country. Every nation has different sets of rules that determine citizenship. Under the Basic Naturalization Act of 1906, naturalization forms became standardized and were sent to the U.S. Bureau of Immigration (later the Immigration and Naturalization Service [INS]) for examination. The formalized process required that a prospective citizen file a declaration of intention in which he or she renounced allegiance to foreign sovereignties. Following a waiting period of five years, an immigrant could then petition a federal court for formal citizenship.
Naturalization records typically include these types of information:
Applicant's name
Birth date and place
Port and date of departure
Port and date of arrival
Last foreign address
Court location and date of petition or oath of allegiance
Physical description
FAQ
What is the U.S. Immigration subscription?The U.S. Immigration Collection covers records for all major ports of arrival for the U.S. as well as Canada. You will find records ranging from the 1500s to the 1900s—including information on immigrants from over 100 countries. The U.S. Immigration Collection contains various database types including passenger lists and naturalization records for more than 22 million names. Some featured databases include the following:
Passenger and Immigration Lists Index (PILI). This database contains over 4 million names spanning 1538–1940. It covers all U.S. & Canadian ports, and is the most reliable source for pre-1820 immigration records (before the U.S. required such information). In addition to passenger lists, it also includes naturalization records, church records, family & local histories, voter registrations, census records, land records, personal diaries and more.
New York Passenger Lists. This database is an index to the passenger lists of ships arriving from foreign ports at the port of New York from 1851–1891. The names found in the index are linked to actual images of the passenger lists, copied from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) microfilm.
Can you provide any tips for finding my ancestor's immigration records?
One of the challenges in tracing your family history is in finding information about immigrant ancestors. Because most foreign records are kept at the town level, discovering the name of a native town, county, or parish is an important goal. Without that information, it is impossible to know where to conduct research in the country of origin.
As you begin your research for your immigrant ancestors, you might want to start your research by finding out as much information as you can about your immigrant ancestor. In some cases, evidence of a family’s origins can be found in personal possessions or family histories. If you don’t find the information you’re looking for, you can search public records such as: tax, land, or probate records; military records; and censuses. These record collections often contain immigration information and are a major resource for determining where your ancestor lived. For example, census records from as early as 1850 indicate birthplaces for individuals and a possible date of immigration.
After discovering all that you can about your ancestor, you are ready to search for your immigrant ancestor in the U.S. Immigration Collection—databases that include passenger lists (some with images of the microfilmed record), naturalization records, and more.
If you don’t have a subscription, you can still see an individual’s name and the name of the database where it was found, but you will not be able to see any other index information or database images.
What other resources can I use to finding my immigrant ancestors?
There are many websites that provide important free information that will aid you in your search for your immigrant ancestors:
For an outline that explains how to find immigrant ancestors, see the Family History Library’s Tracing Immigrant Origins Research Outline provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
For an introduction to immigration records, see the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. (The NARA houses the most complete set of microfilmed immigration records in the nation.)
Ellis Island was the principal immigration clearing point from 1892–1924. If your ancestors arrived to the U.S. during those years, the probability is extremely high that they passed through there. For information about Ellis Island, see these websites:
The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.
Ellis Island
Interesting Facts TOP^
Between 1855 and 1922, an alien woman became a citizen automatically if she married an American citizen.
Non-native minor children became American citizens when their parents were naturalized.
Former slaves were made citizens by the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1868.
American Indians were made citizens by federal laws passed in 1887 and 1924.
Aliens from China, Japan, and other East and South Asian countries were barred from becoming citizens from 1882 to 1943.
Improving Your Search: Identify the Immigrant TOP^
Your ability to successfully trace immigrant ancestors is greatly enhanced if you learn everything possible about the individual and their family members before you begin your search. Here’s a list of some information you will want to discover:
Name. Find out the immigrant's full name including given names, surnames, and nicknames. Sometimes, a name alone can be a clue to the immigrant’s original country or region.
Dates. Try to place your ancestor in their native country on a specific date. A birth date is best, but other dates such as a christening or marriage may work, as long as the event took place in their native country.
Place of Origin. Determine the specific place (such as town or parish) where your immigrant ancestor was born, or their last place of residence before they left the country.
If possible, you should also try to discover the date of immigration, place of departure, and port of arrival.
Related Articles TOP^
For more information on using immigration records in your genealogical research, see these articles:
Tips for Finding Your Immigrant Ancestors, Part 1 by Kip Sperry
Immigration Records by Terry and Jim Willard
Naturalization Records by Juliana Smith
Taking the Plunge on Ships' Passenger Lists by George G. Morgan
Mine & every Amerian tax paying citizens for putting up with the the way the criminal illegal aliens are abusing the laws
we have to live by.What a joke? An there laughing at us.All the way 2 the Bank Of Amermexico. Just my thought.
Remember the free passes & free bees are for criminal illegal aliens only. Legal citizens do jail time. Press 1 for english.
What a joke. It's just becoming too commonplace that criminals have more rights than victims, and in this case it's the average "just trying to live a decent life and keep the law as best as I can" American who's bending over to grab the soap.
I waited years to immigrate from Europe to the U.S. I wish I could have swam or walked across so if I was ever arrested, I can take a vacation back home to see my folks and walk back again. The Farmers Branch folks were just too frustrated and fed up. Law abiding citizens' (naturalized included) rights are being overlooked in this case.
***A big clarification, the present immigration proposal of paying a $5.000 fine and wait in line is JUST FOR "ROAD TO CITIZENSHIP" proposal. If an illegal decides to get green cards only, and has NO intention on applying for citizenship later, the fine and waiting period DOES NOT apply! How's that for fairness? Won't it be nice if the illegals shown some courtesy and respect to this country? The big question is how much of hardship would it pose to dual income families on the income taxes, school and property taxes, as well as social programs that we all have to chip in.
*Speaking of taxes; one way to stop this crime is to report the illegals, and their employers to the I.R.S. Afterall, isn't this how they finally nailed Al Capone and many other well organized criminals? Isn't there a 10% reward given to a credible reporting of tax fraud from the I.R.S.? Let's help our goverment, and reduce our taxes by collecting the taxes or just a good portion of taxes that are rightfully owed. Do the math if ea. illegal does not report and is short of just $2,000 in taxes ea. year, multiply by just 10% of the 14 million reportly in this country or 1.4 mil. x $2,000 = $2,800,000,000 each year minus enforcement fee. WOW! Heck, take this money-yearly, and apply towards projects likes better equipment for the military, VA, Homeland Security, or the liberal's projects like contributing to Health Care or even Global Warming would make all of us pretty happy right?
Unfortunaltly its the good citizens of this great country that are being viloated. The same thing happened out here in Escondido, north of San Diego last year, and all the bleeding heart liberals got all pissy threated lawsuits until the the city dropped it. I believe too that many good American feel the same way and are to afraid to speak up about it. What part of ILLEAGAL do people not understand they are ILLEAGAL
The reason for that law is the right of privacy. Are you getting paid for doing the job of the immigration? Leave the people alone. There are some laws worse than others. Robbing a bank and murder is not even close into comparison of coming into this country illegally.
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