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Immigration - Loudoun County
Residents call for zoning crackdown
- Overcrowding complaints by Loudoun residents who charge that groups of illegal immigrants are packing houses zoned for single families have more than doubled in 2008, prompting a county supervisor to urge an investigation.
U.S. immigration officials reject Loudoun’s proposed crackdown
- Federal authorities refused Loudoun County’s bid to check the legal status of its jail inmates, citing concerns about limited bed space and strained federal capacity to remove illegal immigrants, county Sheriff Steve Simpson said.
Federal immigration officials raid Loudoun resort; 59 arrested
- Federal immigration authorities arrested 59 workers at a luxury Loudoun County resort Tuesday on suspicion of being in the country illegally.
Loudoun County supervisors undecided on illegal immigration
- Sharp contradictions in two early votes on illegal immigration illustrate that the new Loudoun County Board of Supervisors has not decided how it wants to treat the contentious debate.
Loudoun County Board of Supervisors rejects anti-illegal immigration plan
- The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors signaled Thursday that the county, which had taken some of the toughest illegal-immigration tacks in Virginia, is now much more reluctant to push for immigration reform.
Board passes most of reform, defers rest of immigration bill
- Loudoun County supervisors on Tuesday passed the bulk of a package of legislation designed to crack down on illegal immigration, but deferred until after the November election a measure that would force nonprofits to disclose whether they aid those living in the country illegally. The board easily pushed through six of its seven proposals, but reached a roadblock as it came to the final, most contentious measure.
Nonprofits may lose funding if they give illegal immigrants aid
- County supervisors plan to ask nonprofit groups next week whether they check the legal status of people seeking help as part of a push to limit the tax money going to illegal immigrants.
Inaction may undermine Loudoun crackdown on illegal immigrants
- Broad measures to battle illegal immigration in Loudoun County are handcuffed in part because the General Assembly has rejected or delayed plans in the past to give local governments more authority to address the incendiary issue in recent years.
Loudoun to weigh sanctions for hiring illegal immigrants
- Loudoun County supervisors studying a bushel basket of new measures to battle illegal immigration will hold a key work session tonight that could lead to new sanctions for companies that hire illegal immigrants and new restrictions on who can receive some county services.
