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Dallas Residents Challenge Anti-Immigrant Law

HeadlineMay 15, 2007

In Texas, residents of a Dallas suburb are organizing to challenge a sweeping new anti-immigration law passed last week. Farmers Branch has approved a measure barring renting homes to most undocumented immigrants. Landlords would be forced to check if renters are U.S. citizens or visa-approved immigrants before giving them a lease.

Community activist Elizabeth Villafranca: “This is going to be a black spot on the city of Farmers Branch. In my opinion, this is going to be right in the column with the sitting in the back of the bus and not using bathrooms that whites use, and not, you know, using the same water fountains that whites use, and this is going to be a black mark.”

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