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Arguments largely focused on how the case is affected by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June on Ariz
FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2006 file photo, former Marine Sgt. Salvadaor Parada, right, speaks to protesters during a rally outside city hall in Farmers Branch, Texas. A federal appeals court will review Farmers Branch's ordinance, which allows the city building inspector to evict any illegal immigrant renters.
The full 5th U.S. Circuit cheap hawaii plane tickets Court of Appeals agreed to rehear the case after a three-judge panel from the court ruled in March that Farmers Branch's ordinance cheap hawaii plane tickets is unconstitutional and impermissibly interferes with the federal immigration system.
The court's 15 judges didn't indicate when they would rule after hearing arguments cheap hawaii plane tickets Wednesday from attorneys for the town and a group of landlords and tenants who sued to block the ordinance's enforcement.
Arguments largely focused on how the case is affected by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June on Arizona's tough immigration law. That ruling rejected major parts of the law, but upheld the so-called "show me your papers" requirement, which gives law enforcement authority to check a person's legal status if officers have reasonable suspicion he or she is in the U.S. illegally.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a national advocate for tougher illegal cheap hawaii plane tickets immigration laws who is also representing Farmers Branch, said that provision of the Arizona law closely mirrors a key portion of the Texas town's ordinance.
The ordinance, which replaced an earlier 2006 version, would require all renters to obtain a $5 city license and fill out an application that asks about their legal status. Then, the city's building inspector would have to check whether any immigrant applying for a license was in the United States cheap hawaii plane tickets legally. Illegal immigrants would be denied a permit, and landlords who knowingly allow illegal immigrants to stay as tenants could be fined or have their renters' license barred.
But plaintiffs' attorney cheap hawaii plane tickets Nina Perales said the information federal officials provide the building inspector is "very complex and varied" and doesn't explicitly state whether an applicant is "lawfully present" in the country.
Perales said the city's cheap hawaii plane tickets ordinance goes far beyond the Arizona law, forcibly removing illegal immigrants from rental housing instead of merely detaining them and letting the federal government decide whether to remove them from the country.
The full 5th Circuit is generally cheap hawaii plane tickets considered to be one of the nation's most conservative federal courts. Its decision to hear the Farmers Branch cheap hawaii plane tickets case is rare - fewer than 5 percent of petitions for a full court hearing are granted - though the court rehearing a case doesn't necessarily mean judges intend to reverse an earlier decision.
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