After years of court battles, the Supreme Court stopped the intention of residents in the cities of Hazleton, Pennsylvania and Farmers Branch, Texas, to resuscitate anti-immigrant ordinances. The ordinances sought to ban renting apartments to undocumented immigrants and deny licenses to businesses that hired them. Immigrant rights and civil rights groups hope the Supreme Court decision will discourage other cities that have expressed similar pretensions. José López Zamorano reports from the nation’s capital.

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