Lawyer Asks Federal Appeals Court to Revive Pa. Anti-Immigration Law

In a closely watched immigration law case, a lawyer for Hazleton, Pa., on Thursday urged the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to revive a city ordinance that would have barred employers and landlords from hiring or renting to illegal aliens. But two ACLU lawyers, warning of the possible "Balkanization" of the country into "immigrant-friendly communities and immigrant-hostile communities," urged the three-judge panel to uphold a lower court decision that struck down the ordinance.