Burning Atlanta

I think I posted about this earlier, but this is a kind of follow-up.

Put them in jail.

Immigration activists and the ACLU are accusing the federal government of overreaching in the prosecution of two Lexington landlords who had rented to 60 illegal immigrants.

"It fuels a phobia, it creates this feeling of discrimination in the community, and I am sure it heightens everyone's uneasiness across the board," said Aldridge, the group's executive director. "It's a horrible situation."

According to the indictment, the Haddens knowingly hired two Mexican citizens to manage the apartments and weakened their application process to accommodate illegal immigrants. They stopped requiring credit checks, Social Security numbers, past addresses, employment history and references for applicants, ostensibly so illegal immigrants would not be rejected for apartments.

One of the employees would encourage undocumented applicants who did not have Social Security numbers to provide IRS tax identification numbers instead, according to the indictment. The tax numbers are used to process tax returns for illegal immigrants.

Applications were translated into Spanish. And after Kentucky Utilities started requiring Social Security numbers to obtain electrical service, the apartment complexes opened accounts in their names and distributed the billing statements to tenants.

Seems these guys didn't just unknowingly rent to illegals but took an active role in trying to rent to illegals.