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N.Va.’s illegal immigration debate heads to Richmond

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Nov 15, 2007 12:00 AM (332 days ago) by Maria Hegstad, The Examiner
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WASHINGTON (Map, News) - The Arlington County Board will request additional funding from Richmond in January to help immigrants adjust to living in the United States.

The request is one of many Arlington officials will lobby for during the General Assembly session that begins in January. Neighboring localities have their own immigration proposals, which mirror their varying stances on the issue.

Walter Tejada, vice chairman of Arlington's County Board, asked for the assimilation funding. The money would be used for citizenship workshops, English classes and other initiatives, he said. The county is not asking for a specific amount of money.

“I'm a strong believer that we must find ways to integrate and assimilate our hard-working immigrants,” said Tejada, who emigrated from El Salvador at 13. “Just talking about how we [in Arlington] value diversity isn't enough.”

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Alexandria probably will ask state lawmakers to oppose requiring police departments to enforce federal immigration laws and oppose further restrictions on local governments' interaction with illegal immigrants. The County Council has not approved its legislative requests. But if approved, it would be the third year the council has made the requests, said Bernie Caton, the city's legislative director.

“It's just because of what's come up in the General Assembly,” Caton said, adding the request is not a reaction to other localities' recent anti-illegal immigrant policies. “There were 50 bills [relating to immigration] last year in the General Assembly.”

If approved, Alexandria’s request would run counter to one recently approved by Virginia’s State Crime Commission. This week, commissioners decided to ask state legislators to give the State Police and local officers greater power to check immigration status and detain illegal aliens.

Immigration is expected to be Prince William County's top issue in Richmond next year. The county will ask for statewide uniformity in enforcing immigration laws, according to a draft of requests.

While the Board of Supervisors hasn't approved its legislative agenda, it is pursuing an expensive plan to check the immigration status of anyone police stop for traffic violations and other misdemeanors and suspect of entering the country illegally. County officers are scheduled to begin training in January.

Fairfax’s proposed legislative requests allude to illegal immigration through a surrogate concern: residential overcrowding. Fairfax supervisors will ask the General Assembly for the power to prevent homeowners from flipping property to delay enforcing overcrowding laws.

mhegstad@dcexaminer.com

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10:52 PM MST on Mon., Aug. 18, 2008 re: "Study: N.Va. hub for immigrants"

 Examiner Reader said:
Many Of you are just racist people who don't understand that if the system were not flawed then most would come legally. The main thing should be to go after the real criminals not people coming for a better life. The economy is bad because of a recession so what is the typical American tradition blame some minority. Yes they come here illegally but also think about the years of resentment we have caused as a nation to Latin America how are they not to assume with all our hate that we just see them as criminals. We need to stop this hate especially People like you "Mexicans Without Borders must leave too!!!!" so full of hate I know very well. As for your Mexican comments who broke the law first by taking half of Mexico in an unjustified war!!! I'm out of here my country is repeating the same racist cycles its had. Here is U.S.'s great history first we screwed up Native Americans, then African American, and so on, and now illegal immigrants especially form Latin America and Asia.

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2:53 PM MST on Mon., Jul. 28, 2008 re: "ICE moves to narrow deportation of N.Va. illegals to worst felons"

 Examiner Reader said:
Now why in the world would anyone marry an "Illegal". I see and hear that all the time. You dont know what their intentions are. They tell you good things to have you fooled and once you help them get their Visas...they are gone to the next person. Its not that I dislike anyone here to progress in the United States its that if they can take advantage of the government then they sure can take advantage of you. Too bad us Legal Americans think that love would last a lifetime.

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12:19 PM MST on Thu., Jul. 24, 2008 re: "Study: N.Va. hub for immigrants"

 Examiner Reader said:
Here is a US Educated citizen insight to the Immigration issue. I married a illegal Mexican and spent 4 years and approx 25,000.00 USD getting here and her kids petition for a visa pushed thru the system. I enlisted help from Congress persons and Senators as this is no easy feat. As soon as she saw the light that the visa was hers, she packed and left. No Warning, No note, Nota...... She is being coached, and no wants spousal support to the tune of 28,000.00 per year. After doing lots of research on the subject, it is now apparent that 30,000 Citizens a year are being taken down this very way. Its straight out of the play book. I can testify that these illegal have no regard for our laws or our values. They came here illegally, and will do what ever it takes Legal or otherwise to make a buck. I truly feel for the poor and disadvantaged, but now believe we are fools to help Illegal in any way shape or form. The entire crowd is into Smuggling Humans and Narco.

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8:41 PM MST on Thu., Jul. 10, 2008 re: "Study: N.Va. hub for immigrants"

 Examiner Reader said:
With the economy the way it is, it is ridiculous to provide all of our services (health care, education) to illegal immigrants who are not paying into it - this only increases costs for everyone. I applaud Prince William County police for their efforts to crackdown on illegal immigration. My boyfriend is a Fairfax County police officer, and imagine the frustration of not even having the authority to check immigration status, when all you are trying to do is your job and can't even communicate with a criminal. Our tax dollars shouldn't be spent on training officers and other officials to learn spanish when the outcome of their efforts can't even contribute to fixing the problem.

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4:27 PM MST on Tue., Jul. 8, 2008 re: "Study: N.Va. hub for immigrants"

 Examiner Reader said:
My boyfriend is an illegal immigrant. He is an awesome person. He jumps to help people out, he makes people laugh, he's super smart, he works hard every day. Everywhere we go people know him and love him. He is tired of being treated like dirt and wants to go back to his country, but he's here because we're in love. He came here with a Visa, applied to be a permanent resident. It took 5 years and after calling and writing immigration many times, being told "there's no information" they denied his residence because they said he missed his appointment and they considered his case abandoned. It costs over $600 just to dispute that plus legal fees and YEARS more to continue to fight. This is what you think people should do? It's not realistic. Illegal people would love to do things the right way...if that was an OPTION. There is no option and this hurts more than any of you know

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4:08 PM MST on Tue., Jul. 8, 2008 re: "N.Va. Hispanic businesses talk resolution"

 Examiner Reader said:
Emma Lazarus' sonnet at the base of the Statute of Liberty "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" That is America. Not a nation of hateful people driven by fear to build a wall around itself. From a distance the US will look like a prison. Maybe one day in the future it will be a tourist attraction like the Great Wall of China and people will look at pictures of people in history books holding hate signs and shake their heads at the thought that such discrimination could have existed. If Martin Luther King was with us today he'd have wise words for us, but I think we can all imagine what those might be.

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3:48 PM MST on Tue., Jul. 8, 2008 re: "N.Va. Hispanic businesses talk resolution"

 Examiner Reader said:
I am a LEGAL hispanic immigrant from South America. Every morning the Examiner paper lands on my lawn. I pay taxes, I am educated, I have a job & have never committed a crime. Yet, almost daily there are anti immigrant headlines on the front cover of this paper. Do you have any idea how that feels? As I have my morning coffee at the local Einstein Bagel shop I have to watch other people reading those stories. Spreading lies like the post below. We are PEOPLE. Many people came here legally. People from Argentina, for example, didn't even need a passport to come here. That was until recently. They do what people do...fall in love, bought a house, started a business and now they are considered illegal with NO WAY of becoming legal. Is it fair to treat them like this? End this hate please. What is happening to this country? Remember who you are...kind, freedom loving people. This hatred is ugly.

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3:29 AM MST on Tue., Jul. 8, 2008 re: "Study: N.Va. hub for immigrants"

 Examiner Reader said:
Its a hub the same reason San Fran is a hub for homeless. Nova government leaders, along with the private sector know exactly how to stay ahead of the curve. The illegals have more benefits in Fairfax than legally born citizens, from skirting taxes, to multiple people or familes living together. Fairfax bends over to enrich the section 8 program. Its good for the economy. You have homes in Falls Church , route 50 Arlington Road area being bought by the county for this purpose. Gangs of children of illegals have run organized crime circles around the Fairfax county police. Ask any Fairfax county officer what is going on

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4:18 PM MST on Sat., Jul. 5, 2008 re: "Study: N.Va. hub for immigrants"

 Mexicans Without Borders must leave too!!!! said:
For an illegal or their apologist supporters to make comments concerning legal citizens even if they are criminals or drug users or pushers is ludicrous. When you consider that illegal crime statistics are not reported in most states and recorded in with black or white crime statistics in states like Wisconsin. If you can't come here legally then you have no right to complain about what a legal citizen does or does not do with their life.

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10:01 AM MST on Sat., Jul. 5, 2008 re: "Immigrant sex offenders to face deportation, Va. top lawyer says"

 examiner reader said:
You people talk about spanish speaking people coming over here, to take over your space and free load but you dont talk about the people who are born here and are criminals and free loaders, they are able to work and go to school with no problems and yet they get on wealthfare, and walk around the streets beging for money and selling drugs and illegal substances to children, immigrants who come to this country come because they want to better their lives so they find jobs even if low paid, they do things people here dont want to do. Many do pay taxes and you dont necessarily have to have a ss# to pay taxes..you people should find out what is really going on and maybe you understand why they come here to live with the fear that any day they will be deported or not knowing what is going to happen to them before you just say kick them out. The declaration of Indepence says all people are created equal not united states born people are better than non united states born.

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11:39 AM MST on Fri., Jul. 4, 2008 re: "House unanimously OKs eliminating bail for illegals arrested for serious offenses"

 stella said:
Can't we stop using the old, tired, cliche about being a nation of immigrants. Until the infamous Immigration Act of 1965, we were a nation of NATIVE BORN, and will on our way now to being a nation of illegal immigrants because so many apologizers have utilized this hateful phrase for so many years now.

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9:28 AM MST on Fri., Jul. 4, 2008 re: "Study: N.Va. hub for immigrants"

 Jimi said:
Can someone tell me when mass immigration was adopted as national policy and when was the public discussion about it before the laws were changed to allow mass immigration with no end? Do any of you remember any member of congress or the administration ever asking your opinion about this critical national issue?

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8:44 AM MST on Fri., Jul. 4, 2008 re: "Study: N.Va. hub for immigrants"

 U.S. Born said:
It's pretty clear that if they don't speak English, they're illegal. After 9/11, our borders were left unsecured and people from everywhere have entered. Bush didn't seem to mind. Now it's a huge problem everywhere in the country, not just the border states. When is enough, enough??

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12:57 AM MST on Fri., Jul. 4, 2008 re: "Montgomery residents watch for influx after Va. illegal immigrant crackdown"

 REALITY from eaglesglen said:
When the U.S. Fed is the only lawful employer of illegal aliens, that illegal aliens as part of the U.S. Fed military; that is the U.S. Fed by self confession to inflict all we know as harm, death, inlicting illegal scab labor for U.S. Fed profit, including to inflict harm upon and perpetuate those in the 2400 U.S. Fed HUD zones. U.S. Fed no can do to secure the border? Bull. Like the day Reagan took office and we got all 100 hostages back from Iran; I'll bet we can do the same as applies to pa rticularly one foreign power.

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12:09 AM MST on Fri., Jul. 4, 2008 re: "Study: N.Va. hub for immigrants"

 Examiner Reader: eaglesglen said:
Does not distinguish between illegal aliens and legal aliens. Does not distinguish between higher or lower rates of murder, rape, robbery, piracy of ID. Does not distinguish between financial burden and/or bankruptcy inflicted upon hospitals, welfare, unemployment, all other social services. Conclusion is the smell of the odor is: does not stink. I'll bet the "Does not distinguish between" factors describe the stink. What do you think?

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11:34 PM MST on Thu., Jul. 3, 2008 re: "Study: N.Va. hub for immigrants"

 Examiner Reader said:
Come on. What misleading stats. The claim is foreign born have higher incomes than American born..when 41% have trouible with English? LOL It would seem that the Doctors and programmers from India really increase the average when combined with cough cough "immigrants" from Mexico and El Salvador. Typical of the lefties to combine everyone together. The legal and illegal. Those with job skills that we as a nation need compared to those we do not. Those who can pay their way and those who cannot.

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9:35 PM MST on Thu., Jul. 3, 2008 re: "Study: N.Va. hub for immigrants"

 levotb said:
"Adults in 41% of Latin American households have limitation communicating in English"? No! Say it ain't so, Jose! What this pro-illegal alien article's writer won't say is the fact that Latin American/Mexican illegal aliens have no interest in "assimilating" into American culture. They bring their own, they have no interest in becoming citizens, they just want to be "legalized" so they can live off the generosity of the [stupid] gringos! And another thing this writer won't discuss is illegal aliens "gaming" the system by -Dropping their anchor babies as soon as they can here to make it harder to be deported -Buying stolen U.S. citizen's IDs or fraudulent U.S. IDs, both felonies -Driving in the U.S. without a license or insurance which is mandatory for citizens -Getting "free to them" taxpayer-funded education, "free to them" hospital and medical care raising hospital/medical rates for citizens and closing many hospitals as they can't pay their bills It has to stop!

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8:38 PM MST on Thu., Jul. 3, 2008 re: "Study: N.Va. hub for immigrants"

 Mexicans Without Borders must leave too!!!! said:
If they are illegal they have no right to complain. LOL. Legal immigrants are always welcome. LOL

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12:56 PM MST on Thu., Jul. 3, 2008 re: "Study: N.Va. hub for immigrants"

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what gets me is the fact that they say only 41% of adults dont speak english!!! Obviously no one has been to any eateries in va. Its more like 90%

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8:14 AM MST on Thu., Jul. 3, 2008 re: "Study: N.Va. hub for immigrants"

 Examiner Reader said:
Wait a minute, there are only supposed to be 12 million illegals. That is 4% of the total population. If it is actually 10%, as this story claims, that means there 30.3 million in the US. Wanna bet that all of those figures are constantly deflated? Let the revolution begin!

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7:51 AM MST on Thu., Jul. 3, 2008 re: "Study: N.Va. hub for immigrants"

 mickey said:
so true... i've lived in fairfax country going on 23 years and the ammount of immigrants here has just sky rocketed. but, there are many that just flat out refuse to learn english and its a huge problem. having worked in a resturaunt with mostly spanish employees, we tended to draw a large hispanic crowd, and there were many times when customers just started ordering in spanish without even trying to speak english (hello - white girl - i dont speak spanish). even worse was the guy who worked next door - korean - been living here for 26 years, can only say hello. i mean, come on!!! i dont have any problem with someone moving to another country trying to better the lives of their family, but seriously, its just flat out rude to assume people will speak YOUR language and you dont have to even try.

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5:55 AM MST on Thu., Jul. 3, 2008 re: "Study: N.Va. hub for immigrants"

 Examiner Reader said:
N VA ought to be damn near Nirvania. The US was just experiment anyway.

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4:24 AM MST on Sat., May. 24, 2008 re: "Crackdown foes at immigration hearing want assimilation, not more regulations"

 Examiner Reader said:
Please don't change a thing. If you do, our surge in business may suffer. Thanks for all the new business! Gus, Kim, Kerry, and all of us at Casa de Maryland

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4:34 PM MST on Thu., Apr. 10, 2008 re: "House unanimously OKs eliminating bail for illegals arrested for serious offenses"

 Examiner Reader said:
uhm you dont need a social security number in order to do your taxes... do some research people

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9:24 AM MST on Thu., Apr. 10, 2008 re: "Jailed illegal immigrants released after promising to leave United States"

 Examiner Reader said:
America has the most generous immigration policy in the world. The "undocumented" illegal aliens have to play by the same rules as everyone else. Illegal immigration is a matter of utmost importance to Americans, affecting not only the economy, but the nation's sovereignty and security as well. Does America “owe” the citizens of foreign nations jobs and money? NO! We can't bring all of the world's poor to America and we cannot become the world's employment office. Illegals have no place in our society, and all of us should fight to deport them. Illegal aliens need to return to their own countries and fight for their rights there, they have NO right to be here in our country.

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10:45 PM MST on Wed., Apr. 9, 2008 re: "House unanimously OKs eliminating bail for illegals arrested for serious offenses"

 joeyindc said:
To those who feel that the people deserve sympathy for their problems that forced them to come here and break the law and claim that they are paying taxes like everyone else, I say, that they are confused. If you don't have a ss#, you work under the table and they don't pay taxes, but they do send their children to our schools at double the expense for english speaking children, they use our roads, they use our courts, they require translators, they have children who they apply for benefits for when born here. All of this costs us money. Most of them aren't paying their share for these costs. Most of these people are savvy enough to find fake or stolen IDs, which screws up other's lives. Many send money home and use tax dollars to support their families here. Our citizens are forced to learn spanish for meanial jobs. I don't want the U.S. to become third world because of their presence.

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9:09 PM MST on Wed., Apr. 9, 2008 re: "House unanimously OKs eliminating bail for illegals arrested for serious offenses"

 Examiner Reader said:
I understand these people violated the laws by staying in the country illegaly, but seriously, if you get to experience what they go throught in their native countries you people AT LEAST will comprehend why they work in the US illegaly. Its not easy to make a living in a third-world country, thats why these people come here and work illegaly to support their families. If you think about it they pay their taxes like everybody else, but the only thing that makes them different than everyone else is their immigatrion status. Thats it!

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4:25 PM MST on Wed., Apr. 9, 2008 re: "Jailed illegal immigrants released after promising to leave United States"

 Examiner Reader said:
The Mayor of San Francisco will accept him. He'll accept anyone. Felons, thieves, murderers, it's all the same to him. He lives in a high securtiy area, no doubt.

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3:40 PM MST on Wed., Apr. 9, 2008 re: "Jailed illegal immigrants released after promising to leave United States"

 Buzzm1 said:
Adios illegales!! Help get rid of all illegal immigrants. As with all states, education is California's single largest public expenditure and commands 42% of that state’s $150 billion budget. The State of California's Legislative Analyst's Office reports that of the state's 6.4 million K through 12 public school students, one out of four is not fluent in English. Of that number, 85% are Spanish speaking. Additionally, one out of nine of these students require special education programs. These children of Spanish speaking foreign immigrants increase California's K-12 enrollment by 21.3%, nearly 1.4 million students. At $11,584 each, which is the state’s 2007-2008 budgeted allocation per student, the cost of educating these students is $15.8 billion. Add in the $1.3 billion for special programs to accommodate non-English speaking students, and the cost increases to $17.1 billion. The state's current budget deficit is projected to be $16 billion.

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3:10 PM MST on Wed., Apr. 9, 2008 re: "Jailed illegal immigrants released after promising to leave United States"

 CitizenJim said:
Typical. They hear what they want to hear, or it's no comprende. Get gone!

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6:39 AM MST on Wed., Apr. 9, 2008 re: "Jailed illegal immigrants released after promising to leave United States"

 Examiner Reader said:
Send all of the illegal aliens back to their third world countries. We can find someone else to pick out fruit and clean our hotel rooms. They are not needed nor are they wanted. Go back to where you came from, the USA is not your home !!!

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5:20 AM MST on Wed., Apr. 9, 2008 re: "Jailed illegal immigrants released after promising to leave United States"

 Examiner Reader said:
At least six illegal immigrants jailed in last month’s federal raids on a Manassas construction company have been released from jail after promising to leave the country. Then what was the purpose of the RAID? No volunteer crap, SEND!

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2:25 AM MST on Tue., Mar. 18, 2008 re: "Lawmakers seek better databases on immigration"

 Examiner Reader said:
Great proposal by Mr. Wittman, Mr. Cantor, and Mrs. Drake. Next proposal should be to dump all illegals in Maryland since they don't seem to care where their tax dollars go. Chris Cummings

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4:42 PM MST on Mon., Mar. 10, 2008 re: "Lawmakers OK few bills against illegal immigration"

 Examiner Reader said:
The commonwealth of Virginia should sue the Federal Government for costs associated with illegal immigrants in our neighborhoods. These "lawmakers" who do not protect legal Virginia residents will come up for re-election. This inaction on their part will be their downfall.

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1:29 PM MST on Mon., Mar. 10, 2008 re: "Lawmakers OK few bills against illegal immigration"

 Examiner Reader said:
If illegals would take the time to fix and help their own countries and or properly enter this country, it would not be the major problem facing this country and an economic downturn will certainly make matters much worse for legal citizens. Their is no Utopia in this world, all though we should all strive to make things as good as possible, i.e fairness, equality, everybody should have to pay taxes and have to follow the law. Chris Cummings

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12:12 PM MST on Mon., Mar. 10, 2008 re: "Lawmakers OK few bills against illegal immigration"

 Examiner Reader said:
Our politicians have no guts! They are killing our beautiful country and our economy. They have NO RIGHTS here at all. My family fought and died for this land. Who the hell are they to come enjoy what my family died for? The time will come when we all stand together and take matters into our own hands. GOD BLESS AMERICA!

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9:52 AM MST on Mon., Mar. 10, 2008 re: "Lawmakers OK few bills against illegal immigration"

 Milton Smith said:
Lawmakers better discourage illegal immigration!! As the recession gets worse, jobs will be needed by LEGAL Americans!!! The illegals will have to go home!!!

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4:05 PM MST on Wed., Mar. 5, 2008 re: "Montgomery residents watch for influx after Va. illegal immigrant crackdown"

 Bobby said:
The idiocy of leftist indoctrination at our colleges and universities result in things like the sign the one well nourished guy, sitting down is holding. it says, "All are equal". In a universal sense possibly in a particular nation of laws, never. In fact, this is communist propaganistic nonsense. Even the members of the Polit buro or the Council of Soviets considered themselves better than their supposedly equal comrade brothers. Would I get as much respect as Tom Hanks, for instance, and on and on with the examples. When your not a citizen and your in this nation illegally you have the right to equally be treated in your removal from the nation as other illegal aliens are. That's about it.

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11:34 AM MST on Wed., Mar. 5, 2008 re: "Montgomery residents watch for influx after Va. illegal immigrant crackdown"

 Examiner Reader said:
this illegal immigrant invasion has come over the US like a plague -- time to wake up or be sorry dear Citizens!

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11:22 AM MST on Wed., Mar. 5, 2008 re: "Montgomery residents watch for influx after Va. illegal immigrant crackdown"

 Avid Examiner Reader said:
Samuel Smith said: County Board Vice Chairman Walter Tejadas Parents came to No. Va Illegally The Reagan administration gave them amnesty now he is a nightmare for Arlington --------- Samuel, I've been wondering about Tejada's background. It's never specified whether he came to this country legally or otherwise. He is an empty suit and it says a lot about the Arlington Co. GOP that they are unable to expose this fraud to the voters and beat him in an election. It says a lot about the voters as well. Eisenberg is another pandering pro-illegal alien gem they have to answer for.

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11:21 AM MST on Tue., Mar. 4, 2008 re: "Montgomery residents watch for influx after Va. illegal immigrant crackdown"

 Examiner Reader said:
Keep them! Illegal means illegal be it hispanic or anyone else it's illegal to be here if you don't have the bloody papers

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7:53 AM MST on Tue., Mar. 4, 2008 re: "Montgomery residents watch for influx after Va. illegal immigrant crackdown"

 Robin Ficker, Broker Robin Realty said:
The problem is that Montgomery officials want to raise the property tax and exceed the charter limit to deal with this and other problems. Mark Fennel in the special County Council District 4 elections of April 15 and May 13 will stick to the charter limit this year and the next two as well. Don Praisner will vote every time to hike property taxes.

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5:55 AM MST on Tue., Mar. 4, 2008 re: "Montgomery residents watch for influx after Va. illegal immigrant crackdown"

 cullisongs said:
___And lastly, the issue of “anchor children” needs to be fixed. The Constitution needs to be amended such that a child born to a mother who is in this country illegally does not achieve automatic citizenship. Rather, any baby born in this country under such circumstances is immediately also an illegal alien like its mother and subject to deportation. Pending such a Constitutional amendment, if an illegal alien is being deported, the fact that he/she has a child that is a U.S. citizen should have NO, ZERO, ZIP bearing on the deportation decision. If the deportees don’t want to be separated from their child, they simply take the child with them. A U.S. citizen child should NOT be a reason to give legal status to an illegal alien parent. I have presented these comments to my governor, state delegate, state senator, congressmen and Sen/Candidate McCain. I can only hope that enough of the commenters on the article are doing the same.

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5:53 AM MST on Tue., Mar. 4, 2008 re: "Montgomery residents watch for influx after Va. illegal immigrant crackdown"

 cullisongs said:
Forth, aliens in this country illegally should not be granted ANY of the social safety nets funded by and intended for our citizens or given any other benefits of citizenship. That means no Welfare, no Medicaid, no food stamps, no tuition breaks for higher education, NOTHING. La Raza and the other illegal aliens’ rights groups (now THAT’S an oxymoron) should be required to reimburse hospitals and clinics that provide urgent care for illegal aliens.

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5:53 AM MST on Tue., Mar. 4, 2008 re: "Montgomery residents watch for influx after Va. illegal immigrant crackdown"

 cullisongs said:
Third, there should be no “path” to legal status WHILE THEY ARE HERE ILLEGALLY. NONE. While I am not in favor of a nation-wide witch hunt to ferret out 12M illegal aliens, whenever they are found, they should be immediately deported. If illegal aliens and their supporters want a path to legal status, the illegal aliens must return to their home nations, i.e., stop being illegal aliens in this country, and apply for visas in competition with all those waiting for access legally. To do otherwise rewards illegal aliens for breaking our immigration laws.

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5:52 AM MST on Tue., Mar. 4, 2008 re: "Montgomery residents watch for influx after Va. illegal immigrant crackdown"

 cullisongs said:
Second, and probably the most anathema to our self-serving, money-grubbing politicians, American business that profits through the use of illegal alien labor must be held responsible for its part in this national crisis. Routine investigations of businesses known to employ illegal aliens should be conducted and illegal aliens found during such investigations should be deported immediately. The companies should lose their business licenses AND be fined heavily, at say $100K per illegal alien; and the responsible managers given jail time AND fines, say 30 days jail (perhaps in an illegal alien detention facility?) AND $10K per illegal alien under their employ/supervision.

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5:52 AM MST on Tue., Mar. 4, 2008 re: "Montgomery residents watch for influx after Va. illegal immigrant crackdown"

 cullisongs said:
I am NOT anti-immigrant but I am definitely anti-ILLEGAL alien. And I am fully aware, and appreciate, that this nation is one of immigrants. I also realize that on the whole, the vast majority of illegal aliens are hard-working, honest people, but they are none-the-less law-breakers and our nation of immigrants is also a nation of laws that does not tolerate law breakers. Please don’t hark back to the time of European settlement in this country as “illegal immigration” into the Native Americans’ land. There were no laws governing migration and even the Native Americans were migrants to this land via the land bridge from Asia. We are discussing the issue of ILLEGAL-immigration into the United States in this new millennium. It needs immediate, effective attention that is built, as I see it, on five elements. First, and most important, our nation’s porous borders must be secured, especially that in the southwest.

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5:28 AM MST on Tue., Mar. 4, 2008 re: "Montgomery residents watch for influx after Va. illegal immigrant crackdown"

 When? said:
When are these people going to stop running from one location to the next, return home, and try it the right way? It is obvious that something is wrong anytime you have a crackdown and many leave one area for the next. That should tell the govt alone that the legal status is in question. I look at it this way. If you do a all out crackdown from coast to coast, little kids of illegals won't have to be put in this mess because this will force many to do it the right way. So you will do everyone a favor by cracking down from coast to coast.

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12:48 PM MST on Fri., Feb. 22, 2008 re: "Over 100 bills tied to immigration in Va."

 Samuel Smith said:
Del. Al Eisenberg, D-Arlington is pushing for legislation to support illegal and legal immigrants, including increasing public funds for English-language schooling programs.I really think the water in Arlington is druged and causing the people here major mental illness.

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7:19 PM MST on Thu., Feb. 21, 2008 re: "House unanimously OKs eliminating bail for illegals arrested for serious offenses"

 Examiner Reader said:
immagrants r everywhere they are invadeing i think we should kick them out!!!!!

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