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...authorities and everyone else complete idiots. Since our society loves sensationalism over substance, such ranting gets more attention than legitimate literature. So maybe the bloggers are right after all. Perhaps trying to produce a thoughtful, responsible opinion makes you an idiot in the desolate wasteland of bloggerspace. Clark Gerhart Hazleton, Pennsylvania...
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...latest Census reports that only about 5% of Hazleton's 23,000 residents were Hispanic. But the city's population has swelled since 2000 to around 31,000, according to local officials, about 8,000 of which are Hispanics, or more than a quarter of the residents. Police Chief Robert Ferdinand said he doesn't have good statistics yet to prove it, but his officers are reporting an increasing number of illegal immigrants being involved with violent incidents. He said his officers arrest an illegal immigrant about once a week - something that hardly ever happened just three or four years...
...exactly this kind of local ordinance, it has long made clear that the federal government has the specific and exclusive right to admit or exclude any foreigners and regulate the terms of their stay in the United States. "Clearly this is the prerogative of the federal government... clearly [the Hazleton ordinance] is unconstitutional," Romero said...
...Barletta, however, said the question merely came down to defending his small town."I never intended Hazleton to be thrust into the national debate, but apparently it touched a nerve," he said. "I am just trying to stick up for the people here that elected me and by the response it's received, apparently there are many Hazleton, Pennsylvanias, around the country...