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	<title><![CDATA[Farmers Branch Folly: Local Immigration Laws Do More Harm than Good]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michele-wucker/farmers-branch-folly-loca_b_35111.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>I recently returned from a week in Texas, where people were in an uproar about the vote by the city council in <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-11-14-texas-immigration_x.htm">Farmers Branch</a>, a Dallas suburb, in favor of tough-on-illegal-immigration ordinances that, among other things, would impose a fine on landlords who rent to illegal immigrants.</p>

<p>In the absence of badly-needed action to reform immigration laws to make it easier for hard-working immigrants to come here legally so that it is feasible to enforce workplace labor and immigration violations,...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:47:00-04:00</date_published>
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