Farmers Branch Xenophobia

City coffers are down $1.5 million and counting over court battles to keep landlords from renting to illegals.

Judge Priddy hired a firm to retrieve the documents at the city's expense and has appointed himself to oversee the process.

It's not like the Animal Control people haven't been trying to catch him for a couple of years.

... to the tune of $480,000, resulting from the anti-illegal immigration case the city lost in court this summer.

Farmers Branch had planned to put its immigrant rental ban into effect on Monday.

U.S. District Judge Jane Boyle issued the order while the courts handle discrimination lawsuits brought on by the immigration ordinance.

Courts don't like provisions of the illegal immigrant housing rental ban? No problem! City attorneys draft different ones.

14-1 map created by a judge set a precedent that may affect Farmers Branch case filed this week.

The burden of proving citizenship is now on tenants in Farmers Branch, not their landlords.

The monitors want to make sure everything is done by the book.

Oops.

But that's O.K. - ICE has another solution for them, in the form of investigator training to identify document and benefit fraud.

O'Hare is best known for sponsoring Farmers Branch's controversial immigration ordinance.

O'Hare led the push to kick illegal immigrants out of Farmers Branch as a member of the city council.

Council hopes three's a charm in alienating illegal immigrants.

Owners of various complexes were seeking damages due to inability to rent apartments to illegal immigrants.

In the final analysis, the city council is legally responsible for its actions.

It seems Farmers Branch is using Mexican workers to hang Christmas Lights.

The plot thickens in Farmers Branch's attempt to kick illegals to the curb.