The D.C. Examiner is reporting that Loudoun County is set to join Prince William County’s bid to deny County services to illegal immigrants:
Loudoun County (Map, News) – Three Loudoun County supervisors are poised to introduce a measure today that would deny services to illegal residents and make it easier to deport them, following neighboring Prince William County into the boiling immigration debate.
Supervisor Mick Staton said he was teaming up with Supervisors Eugene Delgaudio and Bruce Tulloch to push a resolution at a morning board meeting that is similar to the controversial measure Prince William County supervisors passed last week.
“People are asking if Loudoun County is going to join Prince William in taking a stand in working and engaging this,” Delgaudio, R-Sterling, told The Examiner. “I wish to make a firm statement against illegal immigrants.”
The resolution would lay the groundwork to deny county services to illegal immigrants and make it easier to deport those under investigation for allegedly breaking other laws.
“The feeling is that if the federal government isn’t going to do anything and the state government isn’t doing anything, it’s time for us to stand up for ourselves,” Staton told The Examiner.
And, that, I think, explains more than anything else why these local moves on immigration are happening. People are frustrated that Washington is doing nothing about the topic.
And it’s not just Loudoun, Channel 4 reported on Saturday that officials in Culpeper County are considering similar legislation:
CULPEPER, Va. — Several places in northern Virginia are becoming battlegrounds in the immigration debate.
Since Prince William County passed some of the toughest rules in the nation, people in Culpeper said they are worried they will be hit with an influx of immigrants.
Officials in Culpeper, like those in Prince William County, said Friday night that illegal immigrants living in the area are costing them millions of dollars. They said Culpeper is ready to make a resolution that will make a bold statement.
This is not going to end with Prince William.
July 17th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
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