390 days ago - The leader of a federal civil rights panel vowed to hold the type of in-depth, balanced hearing on the illegal immigration issue today that Prince William County politicians should have held before approving its landmark crackdown in October.
392 days ago - Federal immigration officials have nixed an ambitious plan to join together three police forces and a sheriff’s department in a plan to screen illegal immigrants at the Prince William County Adult Detention Center, forcing the applicants to apply again individually.
393 days ago - The agency that runs Prince William County’s neighborhood enforcement program wants a major expansion so that it could address an entire community’s needs instead of answering one complaint at a time.
398 days ago - The 1,800-member organization behind the push for Prince William County’s illegal-immigration crackdown is taking its mission statewide in a contentious split from its parent organization, Help Save Virginia.
399 days ago - New immigration screenings of inmates at the Prince William County Adult Detention Center have already flagged more than 450 people for potential deportation, Prince William County Chairman Corey Stewart said Tuesday.
404 days ago - Prince William County officials will head to court today to begin defending their illegal-immigration crackdown, in the first of what is expected to be a long line of legal challenges to the policy.
405 days ago - Prince William County delegates are preparing legislation targeting homes teeming with illegal immigrants and sanctioning jurisdictions that are lax on the aliens.
406 days ago - Prince William County should not expect any state funding to help establish its illegal-immigration crackdown, incoming Virginia Senate Majority Leader Dick Saslaw, D-Fairfax, said Tuesday.
407 days ago - A visiting delegation of four German lawmakers debated two Prince William County leaders Monday as they tried to learn how U.S. politicians are handling the heated illegal immigration issue.
420 days ago - Prince William County leaders say the next few months will be a critical time for addressing public concerns about the county’s new illegal-immigration policy before it takes effect next year.
427 days ago - Voters motivated by immigration concerns in Prince William County appeared to hand Chairman Corey Stewart his first full term Tuesday in an election widely viewed as a referendum on his controversial crackdown on illegal residents.
428 days ago - People on both sides of Northern Virginia’s immigration divide are expecting the issue to dominate the election in Prince William County and drive voter turnout higher than usual for an election with four board seats on the ballot.
429 days ago - The overcrowded Prince William County Adult Detention Center is presenting a test case for a state proposal to deny bail to illegal immigrants booked in Virginia’s jails.