Tag: Fremont
By Jeralyn, Section Civil Liberties
Posted on Tue Jul 27, 2010 at 10:09:07 PM EST
Tags: Fremont, Arizona, SB 1070, immigrants rights (all tags)
Posted on Tue Jul 27, 2010 at 10:09:07 PM EST
Tags: Fremont, Arizona, SB 1070, immigrants rights (all tags)
The ACLU reports that the city council in Fremont, NE has suspended the enactment of its anti-immmigrant resolution that would requires prospective renters to provide the Fremont Police Department with information about their citizenship or immigration status prior to renting any home.
The ACLU filed suit (documents here.) The law passed on June 21 and was scheduled to go into effect on July 29. It's a law that, like SB 1070 in Arizona, invites discrimination against those "who look or seem foreign." [More...]
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