All Annotations of Towns Rethink Laws Against Illegal Immigrants - New York Times[Preview]

saved byTed Perlmutter on 2007-09-27

• With the departure of so many people, the local economy suffered. Hair salons,
  restaurants and corner shops that catered to the immigrants saw business
  plummet; several closed. Once-boarded-up storefronts downtown were boarded up
  again.
• So last week, the town rescinded the ordinance, joining a small but growing list
  of municipalities nationwide that have begun rethinking such laws as their legal
  and economic consequences have become clearer.
• Muzaffar A. Chishti, director of the New York office of the Migration Policy
  Institute, a nonprofit group, said Riverside’s decision to repeal its law —
  which was never enforced — was clearly influenced by the Hazleton ruling, and he
  predicted that other towns would follow suit.