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    WaPo: New Va. Law 'Aims to Make' State 'Unwelcoming' to IAs

    WaPo: New Va. Law 'Aims to Make' State 'Unwelcoming' to Illegal Immigrants
    By Ken Shepherd (Bio | Archive)
    July 28, 2008 - 11:36 ET

    A new Virginia law that seeks to uphold the laws and Constitution of the United States is dismissed as "unwelcoming" to illegal immigrants by the Washington Post's Bill Brubaker: http://tinyurl.com/66dhez

    The editorial comment comes two paragraphs into his July 28 front page article:

    A year after Prince William County launched a crackdown on illegal immigrants, Virginia has implemented a law that requires something similar for every jurisdiction in the state. Jail officials are now required to notify federal authorities of all foreign-born inmates regardless of their immigration status.

    The little-noticed law went into effect July 1 and aims to make every corner of the state as unwelcoming as Prince William for illegal immigrants charged with crimes.

    Aside from his editorial snark about the motive for the law being to make the Old Dominion "unwelcoming" to persons in the United States illegally, by calling the law "little-noticed," Brubaker paints the legislation as something of a surprise that no one saw coming. Yet the Post has a Richmond bureau and the paper has reporters assigned to the Virginia General Assembly. If the law is "little-noticed," might that be largely the Post's fault for failing to track the development of the legislation?

    http://tinyurl.com/65s9l5
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    Hooray for Virginia! Now if we can possibly make the whole country not welcoming illegals, we would be a bit better off. Of course with the borders still open, there are plenty who will still try to cross. And then there are those that come to visit or work and never go home. Isn't there anyway to put a few year moratorium on anyone coming in on a visa so we can get our systems in order to track violators. Oh yeah, I forgot: that would be politically incorrect and we would be sued by everyone from across the world for discrimination.
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    Re: WaPo: New Va. Law 'Aims to Make' State 'Unwelcoming' to

    Quote Originally Posted by zeezil
    WaPo: New Va. Law 'Aims to Make' State 'Unwelcoming' to Illegal Immigrants
    By Ken Shepherd (Bio | Archive)
    July 28, 2008 - 11:36 ET

    A new Virginia law that seeks to uphold the laws and Constitution of the United States is dismissed as "unwelcoming" to illegal immigrants by the Washington Post's Bill Brubaker: http://tinyurl.com/66dhez

    The editorial comment comes two paragraphs into his July 28 front page article:

    A year after Prince William County launched a crackdown on illegal immigrants, Virginia has implemented a law that requires something similar for every jurisdiction in the state. Jail officials are now required to notify federal authorities of all foreign-born inmates regardless of their immigration status.

    The little-noticed law went into effect July 1 and aims to make every corner of the state as unwelcoming as Prince William for illegal immigrants charged with crimes.

    Aside from his editorial snark about the motive for the law being to make the Old Dominion "unwelcoming" to persons in the United States illegally, by calling the law "little-noticed," Brubaker paints the legislation as something of a surprise that no one saw coming. Yet the Post has a Richmond bureau and the paper has reporters assigned to the Virginia General Assembly. If the law is "little-noticed," might that be largely the Post's fault for failing to track the development of the legislation?

    http://tinyurl.com/65s9l5



    I also believe that use of language such as "little noticed" is intended to diminish this type of legislation as being inconsequential, so meaningless and laughable that it is hardly worth any attention let alone anything illegals should concern themselves with.

    Any time I see something like that in print, that is the impression I come away with anyway.
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    God Bless Virginia!

    God Bless and Make Virginis strong ! Great news! Would love it if the rest of the country would follow their lead!
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    A new Virginia law that seeks to uphold the laws and Constitution of the United States is dismissed as "unwelcoming" to illegal immigrants by the Washington Post's Bill Brubaker
    I didn't realize we had any obligation, (legally or morally) to be anything but "unwelcoming" to those who have chosen to enter this country in violation of federal immigration law!

    What the heck is Bill Brubaker smoking?
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