May 22, 2023 6:35pm EDT
Chinese citizens file suit against Florida over new law blocking foreigners from buying property
FL suit claims new law unfairly targets foreign citizens due to the actions of their governments
Associated Press
A group of Chinese citizens living and working in Florida sued the state Monday over a new law that bans Chinese nationals from purchasing property in large swaths of the state.
The law applies to land near military installations and other "critical infrastructure" and also affects citizens of Cuba, Venezuela, Syria, Iran, Russia, and North Korea. But Chinese citizens face the harshest restrictions.
The law "will codify and expand housing discrimination against people of Asian descent in violation of the Constitution and the Fair Housing Act. It will also cast an undue burden of suspicion on anyone seeking to buy property whose name sounds remotely Asian, Russian, Iranian, Cuban, Venezuelan, or Syrian," the American Civil Liberties Union said in a press release announcing the suit.
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