The Savings You Can’t Measure
By Greg L | 6 April 2008 | Illegal Aliens, Crime, Prince William County | 21 Comments

Monday evening is the public hearing on the budget and tax rate in Prince William County, and without a doubt funding for efforts to reduce the number of illegal aliens will be a topic of discussion. Prince William County has announced that it has placed over six hundred immigration detainers on persons who were incarcerated in the Adult Detention Center, or who went through the center’s intake unit. During the first month of the Police Department’s implementation of the Rule of Law Resolution, forty-one illegal aliens have been arrested. Although it’s easy to talk about what that cost county taxpayers, the benefit they got as a result is a lot harder to pin down. Despite that, it’s not difficult to talk about the benefit this provides, even if putting a dollar figure on that full benefit is impossible.

The first murder in Manassas in 2007 was that of Manassas City resident Breneley Ester Lessing-Yanes. She was brutally murdered by an illegal alien MS-13 member by the name of Jose Martinez-Zeron who raped her in her bedroom during a party at her house. When Martinez-Zeron walked out of the victim’s bedroom, he casually remarked to his friends that Breneley “wasn’t going to wake upâ€