This Is What Empathetic Judges Give You

Remember the town of Hazleton, PA? It was the town that was thrust into the center of the illegal alien debate when it passed an ordinance in 2006 that basically would fine employers who hired illegals and landlords who rented to them. The law was never enacted due to lawsuits being filed and in 2007 an empathetic judge ruled the law unconstitutional.

A U.S. District Court Judge struck down a Hazelton Pennsylvania law designed to crackdown on illegal immigration declaring it “unconstitutional”. U.S. District Judge James Munley said the city was not allowed to implement the law that would fine businesses that hire illegal immigrants and penalize landlords who rent rooms to them.

In the case of “PEDRO LOZANO Vs. the City of Hazelton” the city blamed the influx of illegal immigrants for a rise in crime and an increase in social services. Although the city passed the ordinance in July of 2006, it was not implemented because of a court injunction. On Thursday Judge Munley made that injunction permanent.

Of the 30,000 residents of Hazelton, about a third are immigrants from Central America and around a quarter of the immigrant population is believed to be undocumented.

Well flash forward to 2009 and this story coming out of Hazelton.

It didn’t take long for a group of alleged drug dealers to move into the Hazleton area after a previous group had been swept out, Pennsylvania’s chief prosecutor said on Wednesday.
State Attorney General Tom Corbett said undercover narcotics agents and Hazleton police broke up a $10.4 million cocaine trafficking ring that had been operating in the city for nearly two years.

“In September 2007, we took down one of the largest cocaine trafficking rings in Hazleton as part of Operation Boomerang,” Corbett said during a Wednesday afternoon news conference in Plains Township. “Less than two years later, we are here again arresting a new set of drug dealers who thought they could simply step in and continue what the previous group had started.”

Several illegal immigrants were among those arrested on Tuesday, Corbett said.

Aren't you glad that a smart empathetic Latina woman is going to be sitting on the highest court in the land. Well at least it is the highest court in America for the time being, I am sure soon we will be answering to the World Court.

H/T to Twitter poster ALIPAC