HAZLETON, PA - MARCH 14: Hispanic business owners speak about a controversial new city ordinance March 14, 2007 in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. A new city ordinance in Hazleton has caused members of the large Latino community to fear discrimination and have concern for their future in the town. Many Latinos have left hastening a depression in business throughout the community. The city of Hazleton and its aggressive policy on illegal immigration is the subject of a federal trial that is being viewed nationally as a landmark case on immigration. In a move that caused outrage among Latino residents this past summer, city officials in Hazleton adopted ordinances that target illegal immigrants in housing, language use and employment. The ordinance, called the Illegal immigration Relief Act, has been put on hold while the case is challenged in federal court in Scranton by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund. At least 80 towns and cities across the nation have adopted similar measures against illegal immigrants. Getty Images logo Getty Images 32 months ago

HAZLETON, PA - MARCH 14: Hispanic business owners speak about a controversial new city ordinance March 14, 2007 in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. A new city ordinance in Hazleton has caused members of the large Latino community to fear discrimination and have concern for their future in the town. Many Latinos have left hastening a depression in business throughout the community. The city of Hazleton and its aggressive policy on illegal immigration is the subject of a federal trial that is being viewed nationally as a landmark case on immigration. In a move that caused outrage among Latino residents this past summer, city officials in Hazleton adopted ordinances that target illegal immigrants in housing, language use and employment. The ordinance, called the Illegal immigration Relief Act, has been put on hold while the case is challenged in federal court in Scranton by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund. At least 80 towns and cities across the nation have adopted similar measures against illegal immigrants.

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  2. Ceara Sturgis, 17, left, speaks to reporters with her mother Veronica Rodriguez Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009 at the offices of the ACLU in Jackson, Miss. A Mississippi school superintendent said Friday that previous federal court rulings back up a principal's decision to keep the teenage lesbian's picture out of a high school yearbook. The Copiah County School District has been threatened with legal action over the school's refusal to include the picture of Sturgis wearing a tuxedo. Female students at Wesson Attendance Center dress have traditionally worn drapes in yearbook photos, while males have worn tuxedos.
  3. Ceara Sturgis, 17, left, speaks to holds hands with her mother Veronica Rodriguez Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009 at the offices of the ACLU in Jackson, Miss. A Mississippi school superintendent said Friday that previous federal court rulings back up a principal's decision to keep the teenage lesbian's picture out of a high school yearbook. The Copiah County School District has been threatened with legal action over the school's refusal to include the picture of Sturgis wearing a tuxedo. Female students at Wesson Attendance Center dress have traditionally worn drapes in yearbook photos, while males have worn tuxedos.
  4. Ceara Sturgis, 17, left, speaks to reporters with her mother Veronica Rodriguez Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009 at the offices of the ACLU in Jackson, Miss. A Mississippi school superintendent said Friday that previous federal court rulings back up a principal's decision to keep the teenage lesbian's picture out of a high school yearbook. The Copiah County School District has been threatened with legal action over the school's refusal to include the picture of Sturgis wearing a tuxedo. Female students at Wesson Attendance Center dress have traditionally worn drapes in yearbook photos, while males have worn tuxedos.
  5. Ceara Sturgis, 17, left, speaks to reporters with her mother Veronica Rodriguez Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009 at the offices of the ACLU in Jackson, Miss. A Mississippi school superintendent said Friday that previous federal court rulings back up a principal's decision to keep the teenage lesbian's picture out of a high school yearbook. The Copiah County School District has been threatened with legal action over the school's refusal to include the picture of Sturgis wearing a tuxedo. Female students at Wesson Attendance Center dress have traditionally worn drapes in yearbook photos, while males have worn tuxedos.
  6. Ceara Sturgis, 17, speaks to reporters Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009 at the offices of the ACLU in Jackson, Miss. A Mississippi school superintendent said Friday that previous federal court rulings back up a principal's decision to keep the teenage lesbian's picture out of a high school yearbook. The Copiah County School District has been threatened with legal action over the school's refusal to include the picture of Sturgis wearing a tuxedo. Female students at Wesson Attendance Center dress have traditionally worn drapes in yearbook photos, while males have worn tuxedos.
  7. Veronica Rodriguez, right, the mother of Ceara Sturgis, a 17-year-old lesbian, complains to reporters that her daughter deserves to have her senior portrait, included in the yearbook of the Wesson Attendance Center even though she is wearing a tux instead of the over-shoulder-drapes traditionally worn by females while Kristy Bennett, an ACLU of Mississippi attorney takes notes Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009, in Jackson, Miss. According to Rodriguez, the principal has said the yearbook senior portraits are of male senior students in tuxedos and the female senior students in drapes, with no exceptions.
  8. Author Tom Bodett of Dummmerston, Vt., delivers a reading from Carlos Fuentes' Speech of Sept. 17, 1984 at An Evening Without. ..Giving Voice To The Silenced, sponsored by The American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont and PEN New England at the Norwich Congregational Church in Norwich, Vt., on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009.
  9. Author Galway Kinnell delivers a reading from "Some Advice To Those Who Will Serve Time in Prison", 1949 by Nazim Hikmet, at An Evening Without. ..Giving Voice To The Silenced, sponsored by The American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont and PEN New England at the Norwich Congregational Church in Norwich, Vt., on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009.

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