Ignorance, Prejudice, and Fear Walk Hand-In-Hand

Careful what you wish for, ye xenophobes.

• Just over a year ago, city leaders in Riverside, N.J., voted to punish employers and landlords of undocumented workers and saw the impact almost immediately. [...]...Some businesses lost as much as half of their income, and immigrant rights groups sued, costing the city tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees.
  
  A few weeks ago, Riverside rescinded its ordinance.
  

• In Virginia, they’re pushing ahead anyway.. .. legal challenges are underway, and some stores already report a drop-off in business.

We have this labor here because we need it. There are too many Americans who won't work for these wages and many who simply can't do these jobs as well. The more stupid laws like these that pass the more economic harm we do to ourselves as a nation.
- posted by john @ 8:23 PM