realized that we weren t going to get any help from the federal government. after a 29-year-old city man was shot and killed, a few months after that, i by two illegal aliens we spent over half of our yearly budget in over time in the police department on that one homicide. enough was enough. i created the ordinance. we lost in district court. and we appealed to the 3rd circuit court and i m now prepared to take this to the supreme court. greta: mayor, thank you sir. thank you. greta: our next guest hates the ordinance and loves the court ruling. boston mayor joins us live senior litigation council for latino justice one of the groups that filed the lawsuit against the hazeleton ordinance. good evening your name is mayor but you are not the mayor is that correct? not that i know of.
the feds is not over. the mayor joins us live. good evening, sir. good evening greta. greta: mayor, what is this ordinance that has been struck down? what is it and why did you advance it or push it or support it? well, the ordinance we passed was the first in the country. an ordinance that pushed businesses that knowingly hired illegal aliens. and punished landlords that knowingly rented to illegal aliens by suspending their business license. greta: why did you feel it necessary to do that? what is going on in hazeleton, pennsylvania? we were having an illegal immigration problem although 2,000 miles from our nearest southern border. the illegal immigration problem wasn t coming from the southern border. it was coming from those who were entering the country illegally through new york andn new jersey. creating problems in our city. our small budget could not
greta: why do you dislike this ordinance? we think the appeals court made two critical and important points. one it acknowledged this law will have a discriminatory impact against latinos and other immigrants. latinos whether they are immigrants or not by its nature and employment regulation. as for housing, it would prohibit families who have someone without status from living in hazel ton and the court made the key point that the federal policy is not to drive people without status to make them homeless and drive them from one locality to another. the federal policy is to discourage them from getting jobs not to make them destitute and throw them out of their housing. these two key points that the court put are critical. greta: the mayor says illegal immigration is a problem for his community. do you have an idea how to help solve this problem for him for his community if you don t like this statute?
greta: why do you dislike this ordinance? we think the appeals court made two critical and important points. one it acknowledged this law will have a discriminatory impact against latinos and other immigrants. latinos whether they are immigrants or not by its nature and employment regulation. as for housing, it would prohibit families who have someone without status from living in hazel ton and the court made the key point that the federal policy is not to drive people without status to make them homeless and drive them from one locality to another. the federal policy is to discourage them from getting jobs not to make them destitute and throw them out of their housing. these two key points that the court put are critical. greta: the mayor says illegal immigration is a problem for his community. do you have an idea how to help solve this problem for him for his community if you don t like this statute?
the feds is not over. the mayor joins us live. good evening, sir. good evening greta. greta: mayor, what is this ordinance that has been struck down? what is it and why did you advance it or push it or support it? well, the ordinance we passed was the first in the country. an ordinance that pushed businesses that knowingly hired illegal aliens. and punished landlords that knowingly rented to illegal aliens by suspending their business license. greta: why did you feel it necessary to do that? what is going on in hazeleton, pennsylvania? we were having an illegal immigration problem although 2,000 miles from our nearest southern border. the illegal immigration problem wasn t coming from the southern border. it was coming from those who were entering the country illegally through new york andn new jersey. creating problems in our city.