by Jo | July 29th, 2007
If the government won’t protect us, its up to the local governments to step up to the plate. I growing trend that I hope continues.
Setting a tough example in what is becoming a movement by many cities and towns
throughout the nation, Prince William County in Northern Virginia just outside
the Nation’s Capital has taken the issue of dealing with illegal immigrants into
its own hands. Last month, following the best-attended — and by far the
stormiest — public meeting that county residents can remember, the Board of
Supervisors in Virginia’s second-most populous county voted unanimously to
permit its police force to ask residents their status as immigrants. If they are
found to be in the country illegally, then county police may promptly arrest
them and send them on to the local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
unit to initiate deportation proceedings. |
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