HolyCoast: Escondido Passes Illegal Alien Rental Law
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Thursday, October 19, 2006

Escondido Passes Illegal Alien Rental Law

As an update to this post, last night the city council of Escondido, CA passed an ordinance banning landlords from renting to illegal aliens. I don't think the San Diego Union-Tribune approved - just look at this headline:
Escondido enacts citizens-only rental ordinance
A good editor should have caught the error in that headline, unless it was the intent of the paper to make an editorial out of it. It's not a "citizen-only" ordinance because there's no requirement that renters be citizens. They just can't be in the country illegally. That's a difference that you would expect a major city newspaper to understand.

Of course, the usual suspects are planning to thwart the will of the council:
Officially, the ordinance will go into effect on Nov. 18, but opponents, including the American Civil Liberties Union, are now working on a lawsuit that will likely seek an injunction banning the city from enforcing the law until the issue is fully litigated.

I'm sure they'll find a sympathetic judge to stay the ordinance. It's not that hard to do in California. I'm sure this will be in the courts for awhile.

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