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Loudoun County supervisors undecided on illegal immigration

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Jan 17, 2008 12:00 AM (264 days ago) by Dan Genz, The Examiner
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WASHINGTON (Map, News) - 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.

Unlike the previous board’s strident opposition to illegal immigrants, the board’s position is “undecided,” said Supervisor Jim Burton, I-Blue Ridge, and will craft its course over a series of decisions in the months to come.

Voters replaced four Republican critics of illegal immigration with four Democratic supervisors in the November elections, reshaping the body into its current makeup of five Democrats, two Republicans and two independents.

Given a chance this week to change course from the old board and pull out of the Culpeper Coalition of local governments against illegal immigration, the board instead voted unanimously to stay in the group.

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But the board had invited talk of a change in direction with a 5-4 vote at its first meeting Jan. 3 to dismiss the previous board's support for harsh state penalties for employers of illegal immigrants.

“People read a lot into that first vote, maybe too much,” Vice Chairwoman Susan Klimek Buckley, D-Sugarland Run, said Wednesday, adding her constituents are concerned about illegal immigration. “It may be too early to see where the board is on this issue.”

Following the series of unanimous votes in support of curbs on illegal immigration last year, Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio, R-Sterling, a leading critic of illegal immigration, said the question is whether the board is “backing off.”

“We were taking strides. Now we are taking baby steps,” Delgaudio said. “Clearly, elements of the board don't want to have anything to do with it.”

dgenz@dcexaminer.com

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2:45 AM MST on Tue., Jul. 8, 2008 re: "U.S. immigration officials reject Loudoun’s proposed crackdown"

 Mexicans Without Borders must leave too!!!! said:
At least Loudoun County still went ahead with the Crackdown which has been effective in other jurisdictions who have implemented tough laws against illegal immigrants in the region. A much needed law and a savings on our strained budgets in the region. LOL

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2:41 AM MST on Tue., Jul. 8, 2008 re: "Residents call for zoning crackdown"

 Mexicans Without Borders must leave too!!!! said:
The people want the law enforced, not continuously broken. What right do illegal aliens have in this country. Why can't they wait in line like my legal ancestors who immigrated in the 1870's and 1960's? What is the fairness in that, typical double standard? Notice how this article had typical illegal alien apologist supporters whining about fairness and treatment for their illegal constituents. What is the fairness in breaking the law? They are housed illegally, have jobs illegally, drive illegally, don't pay taxes legally When will the crimes stop and when will the local authorities take action or do the people have to take matters into their own hands? Of the people by the people i say. They must end the nightmare. LOL

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10:11 AM MST on Sat., Jul. 5, 2008 re: "Residents call for zoning crackdown"

 Examiner Reader said:
Larry wrote: "I condemn the Board of Supervisors (Democrat-controlled) for their position as to not clamp down on illegal aliens" Thats great but remember these board members when they are due to be re-elected. The voters can get these people, who represent the illegals more than Americans, out of office. Support those who will take a stand against the illegals.

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12:17 PM MST on Tue., Jun. 24, 2008 re: "U.S. immigration officials reject Loudoun’s proposed crackdown"

 Examiner Reader said:
Take a luck how the EURO they are doing, they pass a law to deport all the ILLEGAL ALIENS in two years. Follow the rabit.

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9:36 PM MST on Mon., Jun. 23, 2008 re: "U.S. immigration officials reject Loudoun’s proposed crackdown"

 Examiner Reader said:
Have a congressional investigation and fire the top brass at ICE. We have been paying billions to secure the country from threats. Nowthey want to tap dance this away. ICE do you damn jobs and shut your faces

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12:51 PM MST on Wed., Jun. 18, 2008 re: "U.S. immigration officials reject Loudoun’s proposed crackdown"

 Examiner Reader said:
ICE is finally doing the job, that should have started back in 1986? A momentum is slowly building as more and more businesses get raided. Yet the main concern of every law-abiding legal resident and citizen must be the border region. Although Chertoff, Chief of Home Security states the fence is well on its way, to completion. The truth is that 'its smoke and mirrors'? It is not being built to original specifications; the two-tier system. It is not to fences with a no-mans land between, for Border vehicles to patrol the perimeter. The Democrats have gutted it of funding, as they are battling to stop the Federal "SAVE ACT (4088) that would implement massive funding for the fence, thousands of more border agents and pay for the extra equipment needed to defend our nation. Funding would buy more helicopters, flying probes to contain the movement of drugs, and the millions of illegal aliens stealing into our country. Ice has a tip-line: 1-866-DHS-2ICE for intelligence NUMBERSUSA.

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6:02 AM MST on Wed., Jun. 18, 2008 re: "U.S. immigration officials reject Loudoun’s proposed crackdown"

 Examiner Reader said:
every last one of them needs a long jail term then deporting ICE, congress- pay up. ship them all back!!

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11:16 PM MST on Wed., Apr. 9, 2008 re: "Federal immigration officials raid Loudoun resort; 59 arrested"

 Didn't the Washington Post do a story ? said:
On immigrants working at resorts and vacation spots to fill in on jobs that supposedly locals don't want, this really puts a hole in their story

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1:40 PM MST on Wed., Apr. 9, 2008 re: "Federal immigration officials raid Loudoun resort; 59 arrested"

 Examiner Reader said:
Identity theft, document fraud, illegally entering the U.S., obtaining a drivers license with falsifies doucuments or driving without a drivers license, insurance. How many laws do illegals break everyday. Get the message....the free ride is over. Do not come to the U.S. by sneaking across the boarder. Good job to ICE, I hope to see many more arrests. Prince William County is doing their part, it's about time other counties protected their legal citizens.

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12:46 PM MST on Wed., Apr. 9, 2008 re: "Federal immigration officials raid Loudoun resort; 59 arrested"

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Good Job ICE

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12:21 PM MST on Wed., Apr. 9, 2008 re: "Federal immigration officials raid Loudoun resort; 59 arrested"

 DCPS Insider said:
Guess What? It is the policy of DCPS to remove all failing grades from students who have just arrived to this country. For example, if a student failed all of his/her classes but two, only the two non-failing grades make it onto the transcript. This coupled with the fact that new immigrants have until 21 to graduate amount to a very unfair advantage immigrant students. Also, please realize that "undocumented families" are not always required to show residency documentation, and have multiple documents for various jurisdictions. A high school friend of mine went back to her old high school in DC to get her date of birth changed. It was only then that I realized that she was over 25 when we went to school together. She said she got away with it because her mom pretended not to know english, and no one verified her docs. So whats not fair?

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11:07 AM MST on Wed., Apr. 9, 2008 re: "Federal immigration officials raid Loudoun resort; 59 arrested"

 Examiner Reader said:
European settlers...the very first illegal immigrants. Keep this in mind when you are discussing about illegal immigration as it is your ancestors that came into this country to seek refuge and in return they banished the TRUE legal residents (Native Americian Indians) to reservations. Thinking you have full and exclusive right to this country's land and its taxes, which illegal immigrants DO pay, proves the ignorance of "Permanent" residents like some of the commenters below.

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8:53 AM MST on Wed., Apr. 9, 2008 re: "Loudoun County Board of Supervisors rejects anti-illegal immigration plan"

 Buzzm1 said:
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. Randy Alcorn, Californians for Population Stabilization

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8:47 AM MST on Wed., Apr. 9, 2008 re: "Board passes most of reform, defers rest of immigration bill"

 Buzzm1 said:
Help get rid of ALL illegal immigrants. It's absolutely true that illegal immigrants cost us more than the Wars in Iraq, and Afghanistan. Your tax dollars are paying for their education, healthcare, welfare, food stamps, section-8 housing, law enforcement, incarceration, etc., etc........

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8:16 AM MST on Wed., Apr. 9, 2008 re: "Federal immigration officials raid Loudoun resort; 59 arrested"

 Examiner Reader said:
Hooray! This is great news - let's keep up the good work and get these illegals OUT of Loudoun and America...

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8:08 AM MST on Sat., Jan. 26, 2008 re: "Loudoun County supervisors undecided on illegal immigration"

 Larry said:
I condemn the Board of Supervisors (Democrat-controlled) for their position as to not clamp down on illegal aliens. And I'd like to point out that the correct term for these border-busting varmints is "illegal aliens", NOT "illegal immigrants". The term "illegal immigration" is just a liberal oxymoron concocted to dilute the issue i.e., control the language, you control the debate; control the debate, you control the mind. Finally, as I see it, the current Board of Supervisors has, by default, proclaimed Loudoun to be a "sanctuary county", which will only exacerbate the issue of illegal aliens in Loudoun County and raise our taxes. So let's see the term "sanctuary county" get more airplay and print-press to help wake up the taxpaying citizens of Loudoun that their county is being Balkanized and burdened by these South-of-the-border gate-crashing bandidos.

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3:49 PM MST on Sun., Jan. 6, 2008 re: "Loudoun County Board of Supervisors rejects anti-illegal immigration plan"

 Bobby said:
"Burton is pandering to his "poor horsey folk constituency who use illegal immigrants like slaves housing them in their barns in western Loudoun." An Examiner Reader. I haven't the slightest problem with believing this, since I saw the same thing when visiting the ranch of a friends uncle in Texas. Oh, how hard so many of these self righteous people who support illegal immigration, are trying to convince the American citizenry that "they are so humanitarian". Bull. Like the writer of the above statement goes on to say--shame on them and shame on Burton.

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3:30 PM MST on Sun., Jan. 6, 2008 re: "Loudoun County Board of Supervisors rejects anti-illegal immigration plan"

 Bobby said:
One last thing to these cowardly supervisors. On American ever signed on to adopting millions of foreign nationals and paying for their schooling, welfare, medical, and social costs. You people in government are literally criminally sucking away taxpayers resources that are supposed to be used for the citizenrys benefits. John McCain, Bush and the faux republicans,and all of the Democratic candidates are guilty of stealing Americans treasury and heritage. Period. There is no other way to see this.

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3:03 PM MST on Sun., Jan. 6, 2008 re: "Loudoun County Board of Supervisors rejects anti-illegal immigration plan"

 Bobby said:
Too bad people in this county sleep while these treasonous and cowardly Supervisors violate the law. Illegal immigration is a crime. States have every right to deal with it. Those who say they don't are agents of chaos, lawbreakers, and need to be replaced for the benefit of the citizenry.

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1:18 PM MST on Sun., Jan. 6, 2008 re: "Loudoun County Board of Supervisors rejects anti-illegal immigration plan"

 levotb said:
Every one of those 5 dirt bag Dems who voted for killing the measure should face recall or if recall is not in the bi-laws, then ridicule until they either resign or are voted out in the next election.

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9:48 AM MST on Sun., Jan. 6, 2008 re: "Loudoun County Board of Supervisors rejects anti-illegal immigration plan"

 Examiner Reader said:
So the Loudon wants all the illegals. Great we in FLA will send them all to you. They are looking for a better place to live. I will post it on the web site FREE healthcare, food and lower housing cost.. Keep going..

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6:50 AM MST on Sun., Jan. 6, 2008 re: "Loudoun County Board of Supervisors rejects anti-illegal immigration plan"

 Examiner Reader said:
"That’s not a bad thing, Miller said, saying the board had to focus on more pressing matters like a $250 million budget deficit and the county’s transportation woes." Yeah, and part of the deficit is because of expenses incurred by illegal aliens using county services paid for with taxes paid by LEGAL workers. Duh!

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11:55 AM MST on Sat., Jan. 5, 2008 re: "Loudoun County Board of Supervisors rejects anti-illegal immigration plan"

 Examiner Reader said:
Burton claims "it would be unconstitutional to locally enforce a policy the federal government has the power to address". So does this mean that Loudoun residents should no longer contact the police involving federal crimes, such as bank robbery, kidnapping, counterfeit money, etc? I doubt it, more likely the BOS is just picking and choosing which laws they want to enforce. Apparently the majority of the board can more easily relate with the dishonest and corrupt business owners that employee illegal's than the honest ones who can no longer compete because they pay a fair wage.

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9:53 AM MST on Sat., Jan. 5, 2008 re: "Loudoun County Board of Supervisors rejects anti-illegal immigration plan"

 Janice said:
There have been honest entrepreneurs who had to go out of business because they refused to break the law and hire illegal aliens, while competitors hired the low-wage illegal aliens and paid them under the table, etc. But we don't hear about them. The Chamber of Commerce overlooks that.

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9:23 AM MST on Sat., Jan. 5, 2008 re: "Loudoun County Board of Supervisors rejects anti-illegal immigration plan"

 Examiner Reader said:
The court has upheld challenges to recent employer enforcement laws in Oklahoma. Burton is pandering to his "poor" horsey folk constituency who use illegal immigrants like slaves, housing them in their barns in western Loudoun. Shame on them and shame on Burton.

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6:18 AM MST on Sat., Jan. 5, 2008 re: "Loudoun County Board of Supervisors rejects anti-illegal immigration plan"

 Examiner Reader said:
Anyone who believes that this is a partisan issue is sorely mistaken. Both parties, at the Federal level, have dodged the issue since the Reagan amnesty. Republicans, the "cheap labor party", have turned a blind eye to the situation because their big business benefactors wanted the cheap labor. The Chamber of Commerce, a mostly Republican organization, are the biggest sell outs of all. They're in favor of out sourcing or in-sourcing every American job if it will save their constituency $.10.

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6:13 AM MST on Sat., Jan. 5, 2008 re: "Loudoun County Board of Supervisors rejects anti-illegal immigration plan"

 Examiner Reader said:
Way to go BOS. Thanks for passing the personnel expenses of law breaking employers on to the public in the form of higher taxes for services to illegal aliens. Whatever happened to the "free market" where the buyer (employer) must pay the going rate for services (labor)? This is nothing more than socialism foisted upon the public by phony "capitalists" who love to spout about the virtues of the free market. Disgusting!

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8:37 PM MST on Fri., Jan. 4, 2008 re: "Loudoun County Board of Supervisors rejects anti-illegal immigration plan"

 Examiner Reader said:
Growth and illegal immigration are two sides of the same coin. Many illegals work in restaurants,landscaping and as hired hands to maintain expensive estates in the western portion of the county (yes, the big landowners use illegals like plantation owners used slaves in ante-bellum days). But illegals came here to work in construction. They use phony identification obtained via fraud and identify theft or purchased for as little as $50. Builders know this but hire them anyway realizing that no one will ever enforce the law. Local environmentalists and liberals like Kelly Burk have never figured out that if you dry up jobs for illegals in the construction trades you will simulaneously reduce both the illegal population and growth. If this newly elected board member and her colleagues on the left really cared about halting sprawl they would never have voted to continue builders' easy access to cheap, illegal labor.

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6:53 PM MST on Fri., Jan. 4, 2008 re: "Loudoun County Board of Supervisors rejects anti-illegal immigration plan"

 Examiner Reader said:
The Board's newcomers -- Burk, McGimsey, and Miller -- have misread their "mandate." They evidently believe that in electing them the voters rejected any reasonable local controls on illegal immigrants. Yet look at the comments on this site, many of which were offered by Democrats and supporters of these new board members. The neophytes have misread public opinion and are certain to pay a price for it. County school bureaucrats presented a budget that approaches One BILLION dollars. These Democrats will support it without question. Burk would support any education budget, even if it were for two BILLION dollars. One of the reasons our schools are expensive to run is that we are having to educate the children of illegals (as courts have ruled that we must). These Democrats will almost certainly raise our taxes to support these expenditures.

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4:15 PM MST on Fri., Jan. 4, 2008 re: "Loudoun immigration bill would target businesses"

 Examiner Reader said:
“Without a credible system … it is unfair to expect the employer to legally determine that person's legal status,” This is absolute nonsense. Even the background check for all Loudoun County employees includes citizenship status. We simply cannot begin to express our disappointment with our new district supervisor, Andrea McGimsey, that we helped elect. During her campaign she stated: “We must crack down on businesses that lure illegal immigrants to our community. People come here, because there is work and money to be found. This situation is not fair to honest businesses, which hire legal employees and must compete with unscrupulous businesses, which hire illegal immigrants for low wages.” She tricked us, she lied!

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3:11 PM MST on Fri., Jan. 4, 2008 re: "Loudoun County Board of Supervisors rejects anti-illegal immigration plan"

 Examiner Reader said:
Kelly Burk ran on a platform of standing up to developers. Yet on one of her first votes she defends the "right" of Loudoun County developers to continue to skirt the law by hiring illegals. The worst kept secret in our county is that most developers are dependent on cheap illegal labor, whom they also often exploit. A building permit is a privilege, revocable on a number of grounds. Why should it not also be revocable if the permittee flouts the federal prohibition against hiring illegals? It took only a few weeks for Kelly Burk to prove that she is just another tool of developers.

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8:42 AM MST on Fri., Jan. 4, 2008 re: "Loudoun County Board of Supervisors rejects anti-illegal immigration plan"

 Democrats Cater To Criminals said:
The bottom line is that Democrats throughout this region will do whatever it takes to get hispanic votes - even when they have to turn a blind eye toward the law or break them. Democrats are intent on destroying traditional values at any cost -- even if they destroy the country. At this point, we are more third world than first class.

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8:37 AM MST on Fri., Jan. 4, 2008 re: "Loudoun County Board of Supervisors rejects anti-illegal immigration plan"

 Examiner Reader said:
That's it, back down to these criminals who are stealing everything from america right under your noses, what a bunch of cowrards.

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8:35 AM MST on Fri., Jan. 4, 2008 re: "Board passes most of reform, defers rest of immigration bill"

 Examiner Reader said:
If the politicians do not get rid of the illegals and continue to let them ruin our neighborhoods and take our jobs then we need to get rid of the politicians along with the illegals, send them all to mexico, mabe they can help out there.

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8:25 AM MST on Fri., Jan. 4, 2008 re: "Loudoun County Board of Supervisors rejects anti-illegal immigration plan"

 howard said:
Perhaps the people who voted for the illegal immigrants have some interest on seeing them stay here. Who knows, maybe some employ some of them. Then again maybe they are just not that smart. Who knows Loudoun still needs to thank the politicians that voted for it, even though it lost. Now you know who is still for the taxpayer.

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7:58 AM MST on Fri., Jan. 4, 2008 re: "Loudoun County Board of Supervisors rejects anti-illegal immigration plan"

 Examiner Reader said:
The idiot democrats will ruin Loudoun and we will watch as the illegal aliens ruin each community one at a time. Where is Help Save Loudoun ?

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7:15 AM MST on Fri., Jan. 4, 2008 re: "Firms that hire undocumented workers could lose business under proposals"

 Examiner Reader said:
It's even funnier how the board is choosing to waive their ability to do anything about the issue, instead deferring to the Feds. You can bet if this was about abortion or Second Amendment rights, they'd be saying nevermind the Feds, we have to take charge now. Just shows how biased they are, how petty they will be and how they don't actually work for the people of Loudoun, but are beholden to the democratic party machine.

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7:12 AM MST on Fri., Jan. 4, 2008 re: "Loudoun County Board of Supervisors rejects anti-illegal immigration plan"

 Examiner Reader said:
All of the immigrants from NJ that moved here over the past few years have tilted Loudoun to the left. They left high taxes, bad schools and illegals running amuck (you know, the one that murdered the teens execution style in Newark last year) for a better life and jobs in NoVA. They continue to vote democrats into office, expecting some difference. Then they wonder why the place sucks in a few years.

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6:43 AM MST on Fri., Jan. 4, 2008 re: "Loudoun County Board of Supervisors rejects anti-illegal immigration plan"

 BostonRay said:
It appears Liberal Derangement Syndrome (LDS) has now infected Loudoun. Three new democrats = three new failures. All that will happen in Loudoun now will be new taxes to support the 'poor' criminal aliens from being oppressed.

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9:15 PM MST on Thu., Sep. 27, 2007 re: "Nonprofits may lose funding if they give illegal immigrants aid"

 Examiner Reader said:
Maryland should do the same for their taxpayers. Unfortunately, they ( Omalley, Wynn, Van Hollen, Ike Leggett) raise tax to support illegal aliens at the voters' expense.

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12:11 PM MST on Thu., Sep. 27, 2007 re: "Firms that hire undocumented workers could lose business under proposals"

 Examiner Reader said:
That's right let's vote for the person willing to do the will of the AMERICAN CITIZENS no the will of the ILLEGAL ALIEN wish have no right an all.

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9:13 AM MST on Thu., Sep. 27, 2007 re: "Nonprofits may lose funding if they give illegal immigrants aid"

 Herndon, Virginia said:
Start by not giving tax dollars to anti-American groups like La Voz. Why would tax payer dollars be spent to further illegal alien rights in Loudoun County. Since the illegal day labor closed in Herndon we have seen a dramatic decrease in laborers since they are staying in Loudoun. Clean up your mess and keep your illegal alien day laborers in Ashburn & Belmount Country club. Set up a day labor site at Loudoun 1 so you can get them faster.

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10:15 AM MST on Mon., Sep. 10, 2007 re: "Firms that hire undocumented workers could lose business under proposals"

 Examiner Reader said:
Supervisor Jim Burton says that employers are forced to rely on immigrant workers. Fine but not illegal immigrant workers. There are plenty of legal immigrants in this county. The problem really lies in the fact that many employers simply do not want to pay minimum wage. If you cannot afford to run a business within the law, then you shouldn't have a business.

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6:03 PM MST on Sat., Sep. 8, 2007 re: "Firms that hire undocumented workers could lose business under proposals"

 Law and Order in Loudoun said:
I propose that we pass a law requiring every resident in Loudoun County to carry citizenship identification papers on their person when they leave their home. Let's station undercover homeland security agents in all public areas of the county who will check the documents of everyone they encounter. We could set up checkpoints on all roadways to check papers. Those without proper documentation would be sent to a detention center and held until they are able to prove that they are properly documented. Finally we could feel safe from the illegals!

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3:17 PM MST on Fri., Sep. 7, 2007 re: "Firms that hire undocumented workers could lose business under proposals"

 Examiner Reader said:
Greg Ahlemann has the right idea. Until there is verification, they get nothing. I guess that Loudoun County, Virginia knows who to vote for now.

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8:35 AM MST on Tue., Aug. 14, 2007 re: "Loudoun driver’s license checks raise anxiety"

 Examiner Reader said:
Man!! Forget these people that are afraid because they know if they get stopped they are going home for good. Nobody told them to come here illegally and then have a nerve to get upset when local govts. start to check license for accuracy. I am tired of these groups trying to lobby and protest for this nation no to enforce our laws, but the same people want to protest our national govt. for them to turn a head of their crimes and give them rights. In other words, don't enforce your laws on us, but give us rights first and then start enforcing the law. Also, don't do things in this nation that could get us kicked out and if you do we will have to raise awareness that we aren't happy and that we are scared! Sorry, but you people did it all wrong so your stories are pointless!

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11:56 PM MST on Thu., Jul. 19, 2007 re: "Loudoun immigration bill would target businesses"

 Examiner Reader said:
That is definitely right---hold the employers accountable!! They are the ones who are becoming rich by hiring illegals---but then passing off all of the expenses of the illegals being here onto US citizens/tax payers!! Wake up citizens---push for penalizing businesses that hire illegals!!! Also, did you know......Employees/former employees who have been let go so that a business can hire illegals---or had their wages reduced due to the business hiring illegals----can file a lawsuit based on the RICO laws. Numerous US citizens are currently doing this throughout the country by filing class action lawsuits based on the RICO Laws!!

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8:10 PM MST on Thu., Jul. 19, 2007 re: "Loudoun immigration bill would target businesses"

 Examiner Reader said:
Hail to the Loudoun county board. They have the gut to do the right things for their community and our nation. Legal immigrants should be treated different than illegal. Legal is the contrary of ILLEGAL .

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11:01 AM MST on Thu., Jul. 19, 2007 re: "Loudoun immigration bill would target businesses"

 Examiner Reader said:
Another county trying to outdo other county's illegal immigrantion bill. County boards should ask those conservative talk show hosts (Rush-the man who runs America, Sean- the Great American, Levine - the Great One, and also Lou Dobbs, Tancredo and Session, include Sen. Webb) on what to do- they are the one's who runs America.

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