Calif. City's Immigrant Housing Law Dead
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SAN DIEGO - The city of Escondido said it won't enforce a law that punishes landlords for renting to illegal immigrants, killing a measure that many communities nationwide also have considered in an effort to crack down on undocumented workers.
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By Nicole C. Wong, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Mar.
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By Howard Decker, Desert Dispatch, Barstow, Calif.  Sep. 14--BARSTOW -- A vote in the House of Representatives on a bill to  ban "reservation shopping" that would have kept two American Indian tribes  from building a casino resort here failed to pass Wednesday.
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The "L.A. Law" state strikes again.
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Congressional negotiators stripped a  measure to strengthen 1960s-era hate crimes law from a massive  defense bill, likely killing for this year the effort to  broaden hate crimes protections for gay people and the  disabled, lawmakers said on Thursday.
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Stock sinks after-hours after home builder scales back forecasts due to price rollbacks in Sin City. LOS ANGELES  - Pulte Homes Inc.
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SCRANTON, Pennsylvania  - A Pennsylvania town's anti-illegal-immigration law created a climate of fear in which businesses failed and people moved out, a lawyer argued on Monday as a trial seen as a test of U.S. immigration policy began.
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Locke, California, was built almost a century ago, by and for Chinese immigrants. Can its legacy save it from extinction?
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By Alan Lowenthal  Since I began in the California Legislature eight years ago I have noticed a new tactic being employed by advocates for the business community. It basically goes something like this; pass it and we will sue.
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By Michael Fitzgerald, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Jun. 3--Developers and certain landowners are suing the city of Stockton to undo a new law requiring them to preserve farmland in atonement for paving so much over.
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By ANABELLE GARAY  DALLAS - A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch from enforcing a voter-approved law prohibiting apartment rentals to illegal immigrants until a legal challenge is resolved.  U.S.
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By Kevin Howe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep.
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Illegal immigrants seeking to make a home in this northeastern Pennsylvania city could face barriers to finding a home and job after the city council passed one of the nation&#039;s strictest ordinances to fight illegal immigration.
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The defeat of an immigration reform bill in the U.S. Senate was a blow to efforts to raise the annual cap on H-1B visas, but IT industry groups can still pursue other legislative options.
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The Senate may attach language to the immigration bill that would prohibit city councils from requiring home improvement stores to maintain orderly day labor sites
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Getting details about immigrants who have died in administrative custody is a difficult undertaking.
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SACRAMENTO, California  - A bill that would have made California the first U.S. state to mandate neutering and spaying of dogs and cats was withdrawn by its author on Wednesday in the final legislative stages after fierce opposition from dog breeders.