57 percent of voters in the meatpacking town of Fremont, Nebraska passed Ordinance 5165, a measure last week that makes it clear that the undocumented are unwanted. They passed a measure that bars landlords from renting to the undocumented and businesses would have to use a federal database to make sure none of their employees are undocumented. The town essentially used the same defense that Gov. Jan Brewer used in defending SB1070, that the Feds failure to enforce immigration laws has caused the town to take matters into it’s own hands.

The A.C.L.U. has said that they would file a lawsuit against the ordinance. Measures like Ordinance 5265 have passed in other towns, like Farmer’s Branch, and have been declared unconstitutional.

Arizona’s SB1070 has emboldened other municipalities to try and pass laws that encourage racial profiling against Latinos. The Latino population in Fremont is estimated at whopping 2,000 out of about 25,000 total. And yet it is this small population that suddenly feels threatening.

From the NYT:

Still, some in Fremont point, with worry, to other Nebraska towns — places like Schuyler and Lexington — as communities that no longer look or feel the way they once did.

Via / The New York Times & CNN International