from Nebraska StatePaper.Com:
March 16, 2009
The City of Fremont wants a district judge to rule that voters cannot enact an ordinance aimed at barring illegal immigrants from living and working in the city.
City Attorney Dean Skokan has asked the Dodge County District Court to rule that allowing a special election for the proposed ordinance, the product of a petition drive, would violate the U.S. Constitution.
Fremont has been the center of a controversy since the city council last year rejected an ordinance aimed at banning the hiring, harboring or renting of housing to any illegal immigrants within the city.