Posted on 07/19/2007 5:52:10 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Officials around the Washington area say they will not follow Prince Williams and Loudouns efforts to discourage illegal immigrants from residing within their borders, despite anti-illegal immigrant groups concerns that the neighboring counties will become magnets for undocumented workers.
Both the Prince William County (VA) and Loudoun County (VA) Boards of Supervisors recently voted to direct officials to study denying services to those in the country illegally. Representatives from Montgomery (Md), Prince Georges (Md) and Arlington (Va) counties say they do not foresee their counties investigating similar policy changes.
There are all sorts of new Americans who have settled in Montgomery County, county spokesman Patrick Lacefield said. We consider our diversity our strength, and were not going to be going down the road that perhaps Loudoun and Prince William are, in terms of cracking down on immigrants. J. Walter Tejada, vice chairman of the Arlington (VA) County Board, said Arlington has no plans to change its policies, either. Arlington will continue to be a welcoming and inclusive county, Tejada said. What Loudoun and Prince William counties are doing is government-sanctioned xenophobia at its very ugliest.Officials from Fairfax County and Alexandria said only that their jurisdictions are not pursuing any action on illegal immigration at this time.
There is debate over whether illegal immigrants will leave Loudoun and Prince William counties.
We track Spanish-language media programs, and theres definitely talk of people saying theyre going to pick up and go elsewhere in the area, said Greg Letiecq, president of Help Save Manassas.Weve had the red carpet out for a while here in Montgomery County, said Brad Botwin, director of HelpSaveMaryland.com. Now that parts of Virginia are making it more uncomfortable for them, it will make us even more attractive to illegal aliens.
Gustavo Torres, executive director of CASA of Maryland, an immigrant-advocacy group, disagreed. They want to stay there, he said, where they already have houses and jobs to support them.
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As a Marylander, all I have to say is that our elected officials want to offer our state as a SANCTUARY STATE to illegals. I might have to move to Virginia.
Then run the comparatives if you were to be in a no-nonsense, taxpayer friendly local area in Virginia, experiencing a linear year-on-year decrease in illegal aliens.
From four (4) long term key perspectives it might be wise for you to move from Maryland--if you can bear that thought.
--Increased tax burden due to social services.
--Increased tax burden due to additional police needed, emergency room visits (gunshot wounds, drunk driving).
--Property value decrease.
--Crime increase. (Your life could become more dangerous).
Just run the numbers, you might have to make a cold, hard decision which will be good for you over the long run.
I’ve lived in Arlington County all my life and I also remember when it had no illegals. Parts of Arlington now look more like a barrio slum in L.A.
That is the key to start a domino effect. Once the criminals move en mass to nearby counties, their sudden concentration will cause exponential rise in housing problems, crime, drunk driving, ER shutdowns, etc.
The "tolerant" citizens will start grumbling and demanding similar anti-illegals laws, which, upon passing, will create a much larger problem for the next nearby "sanctuary" cities and counties. The influx will not be "tolerated" because of the shear numbers and the above scenario will be repeated even faster.
I bet you, during these county-to-county migrations, some of the illegals will run out of money and places to live and work. Unemployment in the illegal population will increase astronomically to the point that they have to leave the country and go home.
Putting pressure on the "sanctuaries" will eventually solve the problem before violence is triggered, hopefully.
Self deportation through attrition, by cutting off the benefits, penalizing workers, asking for proof of legality to use services, etc. will have a chilling effect and since they never assimilated in the first place, with no allegience to this country, I would predict they will be discouraged, disheartened, longing for home, and they will get the hell out.
Demand a border fence! Build it NOW!! Beef up the border patrol and close our borders!
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We are homeowners in Charles Co., MD since Nov. 2001. We just got our property tax bill for the Oct 1 2007 - Sept 30 2008 calendar year and they went up $210.00 (from what we paid in the last calendar year). I will cut & paste your advice for future reference.
Honestly, I don’t think we’ll move from where we are located in Southern Md. (work, schools, etc.), but you never know... jsut last week our county sheriff’s officers arrested 8 Mara Salvatrucha gang members in our county who were allegedly *fishing* at one of our beaches...
Fishing, yea right...
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