I'm glad we live in different countries. Where I live, which has a huge Hispanic population (and Kurdish, and Laotian, and.....)we don't have any of these problems.
Protesters have ripped down American flags? Boy, sounds like the end of the world as we know it.
You live in a different
state, that is for sure. Come on down to DFW and drink deep the reality you don't get in the hills. Maybe when the majority of kids in your public school system are illegals & anchor babies...and you get to foot the bill, you might sing a different tune.
So Hazelton's solution is to make landlords and employers enforcers of government policy. Certainly will encourage people to go into those jobs. not.
The policy has clear constitutional issues. No one is making anything up. Regardless of how a municipality "feels" (do they even have feelings), they cannot usurp the role of the Federal government, which is arguably what Hazelton is doing.
But people in favor of such policies can lobby for them on the Federal level. That would by-pass some objections anyway. But I haven't seen it.
Hazelton's landlords are not enforcers, they are complying with the policy of the lawfully constituted local government.
Lower levels of gov't enforce law written by higher levels of gov't all the time. For instance, if Hazelton does not have a car-jacking law, the state probably does & I know the federales do. Meanwhile, HPD nabs car-jackers either way. Also, any LEO agency is required to report illegal aliens arrested to the federales...which is one reason "sanctuary cities" are controversial: they are breaking the law by not enforcing the federal law.
In TR's world, if Hazelton's Finest picks up terrorists attempting to set off a nuke while intoxicated, they can cite the terrorists for public intox, but not for lighting off a nuke.