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WASHINGTON — A city may not punish employers who hire illegal immigrants or landlords who rent rooms to them, the federal appeals court in Philadelphia ruled Thursday, insisting that regulation of immigrants is “clearly within the exclusive domain of the federal government.”
The decision strikes down an anti-illegal- immigrant ordinance adopted four years ago in Hazleton, Pa., that touched off a wave of similar measures in cities and states.
“Deciding which aliens may live in the United States has always been the prerogative of the federal government,” said Chief Judge Theodore McKee of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. “If Hazleton can regulate as it has here, then so could every other state or locality.”
