This instance in Texas (who woulda thunk it). The NYT reports:

Voters in a Dallas suburb approved a contentious proposal Saturday to ban landlords from renting apartments to most illegal immigrants.

Just under 6,000 residents of the suburb, Farmers Branch, cast ballots, with 68 percent in favor of the ban. . .

Farmers Branch, with about 27,000 residents, would be the first city in Texas to adopt such a ban, modeled after similar provisions in Hazleton, Pa., and other cities. . .

In Farmers Branch, Mr. O’Hare said when he introduced the rental measure in November that residents were complaining that illegal immigrants were a strain on schools and city services.

A study by two University of North Texas professors that was commissioned by a group opposed to the measure, Let the Voters Decide, reported that enforcing the ordinance would reduce the city’s tax base, strain community

relations and leave Farmers Branch vulnerable to lawsuits.

Farmers Branch is one of 88 municipalities in 27 states that have tried to pass rental bans or English-only provisions aimed at illegal immigrants since 2006, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. After months of emotional debate by the issue and accusations of racism from both sides, the Farmers Branch mayor, Bob Phelps, publicly expressed his opposition for the first moment last week. Mr. Phelps said it was a waste of city tax dollars on what should be a federal issue.

Afterward, his house was vandalized.

Is it a coincidence that a different Dallas suburb simultaneously voted to form land available for a George W. Bush presidential library? Perhaps there’ll be decent room to house some immigrants. . .

Original post by Rabbi Jill Jacobs